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		amitav1 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Datacenters in space aren't going to work All relevant actors are also capable of destroying ground-based data centres, but somehow that's not a huge problem for data centres.

cheema33 3 months ago [–]

You can take out a data center in space with an accidental collision of a small runaway satellite. Taking out a data center in the middle of Oregon would be significantly harder and will invite massive retaliation.

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