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They don’t have any advantages at all. People point to the cost of land, but if being physically inaccessible isn’t a problem, then there are lots of cheap pla
by bigfatkitten 6mo ago
They don’t have any advantages at all.
People point to the cost of land, but if being physically inaccessible isn’t a problem, then there are lots of cheap places on Earth you can deploy data centres too at far lower cost than launching them into orbit.
- iso1631 6mo agoDesert land is free. Floating data centres in the middle of the pacific is free. If a state, or even rich billionaire, wanted to take out your data centre in low earth orbit, it's only a few million dollars to launch a retrograde rocket which explodes into 10 ton of shrapnel, or even less to forget the orbit and just launch it directly up.
- philipwhiuk 6mo agoYou can do the same to the ones in the Pacific and desert too. It's a declaration of war much the same.
- philipwhiuk 6mo agoFor now there's a regulatory oversight advantage (or rather lack of same).
- bigfatkitten 6mo agoThere’s a whole lot more oversight, from the radiocommunications and aviation safety regulators.