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Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue (tech.yahoo.com)
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[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 1 points 1 day ago

It's SpaceX. Of course they'll say all communication goes through Starlink.

But so far the only use for data centers in space is to already run processing on satellite data and space based telescopes to just send the results back to Earth instead of raw data. And in future perhaps robotics in space that need processing help.