[Starlink] Re: Data centers are racing to space — and regulation can’t keep up

David Lang
2026-02-27T01:47:10Z

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