Comment by themgt

Substitute “perpetual motion machines” for “datacenters in space”.

This is an absurd strawman. A datacenter in space doesn't violate any fundamental physical laws. Science would not be "disrupted" if engineers made it economically feasible for certain use-cases.

It's totally reasonable to doubt that e.g. >1% of Vera Rubins are going to wind up deployed in space, but fundamentally this is a discussion about large profitable companies investing in (one possible) future of business and technology, not a small group of crackpot visionaries intending to upend physics.

Starlink sounded fairly nuts when it was first proposed, but now there's thousands of routers in space.