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Re:Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea by myhf on Sunday November 30, 2025 @01:25PM (#46099050)
To say the even quieter part out loud, datacenters are colonial encampments (like energy projects). Space has no indigenous people to colonize.
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Re:Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea by titanomachy on Sunday November 30, 2025 @01:29PM (#46099070)
Ok, but couldn’t you equally say that about anything constructed by industrialized people in places that used to have lots of non-industrialized people?
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Re:Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea by cess11 on Sunday November 30, 2025 @04:33PM (#46100654)
Yes. Industrialisation and its aftermath has been quite gruesome for a very long time.
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