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Joe Hamelin wrote:

> I'll just say that this puts to bed the argument that data centers create
> long-term local jobs.

I don't know about that (although datacenters don't produce that many jobs once 
they are up and running) the whole thing about space datacenters isn't that they 
are better, just that they are (claimed to be) cheaper/faster to build from 
scratch, in large part due to the regulations slowing ground based datacenters.

once the ground based datacenter is built, it's going to have a much longer life 
than a satellite, seeing upgrades and new technologies wheeled in that would 
require new satellites to deploy.

David Lang