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Potentially greater power collection for use since solar arrays dont need to be built with the same space and enviromental constraints.
Potentially already in the data path for a lot of communications with satilites being capable of both last mile and backhaul communication.
Archtecture could take advantage of all three dimensions better again because of the extra space and different enviromental constraints (the big one being gravity). This is truer the more of it could be consteucted in microgravity.
Physical security. Its pretty hard for someone to sneak in.
Further failure domain segmentaion. I.e. hurricanes, earth quakes, etc not saying space is safe (good God not saying that!) but if you have a DC in florida, California, and above the earths mesosphere the likely hood that a disaster effects all three is pretty slim.
Closer data transit for interplantery or lunar communication.
Ignoring the costs and new hurdles of the enviroment this is what im tracking.
If we add unstable governments or government interference to that list of possible disasters, it starts to make a little sense.