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Hesham ElBakoury wrote:

> https://restofworld.org/2026/orbital-data-centers-ai-sovereignty/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter

sorry, not sympathetic to countries that try to control the Internet not being 
able to participate (especially those who can't provide the power on earth 
anyway)

But it would probably be cheaper for them to buy SpaceX stellites (owning, not 
renting) and pay SpaceX to manage them than to try and build out their own 
datacenters (on earth or in space)

The vast majority of countries that have 'you can only use computers in our 
country to process data from our country' are doing so to enforce censorship, 
which gets even less sympathy from me.

A country does want to ensure they are not dependent on a significant rival for 
National Security reasons, but as long as there are multiple competing countries 
to buy capcity from.

David Lang