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@sundogplanets Even if the engineering is feasible, it's a plumb-stupid idea.

"You mean I can push my compute into a place where my only cooling solution is black-body radiation, and I get to deal with the computational errors introduced by unshielded cosmic rays... But if do both of those things, I get... a fraction of the compute power of an equivalent-sized terrestrial system at 100,000 times the up-front cost? Sign me the fuck up!"

Even Scott Manley, notorious (and delightful, this is not criticism) Liker Of Technically Complicated Engineering Things In Space, could only see one justification for this: it's only the cheapest solution if the kind of datacenter you want to build has been banned on Earth. They're hedging against the kind of mass uprising that, I hate to say, makes it risky to assume you can get something as vulnerable as a rocketship off the ground if people hate your product that much.

(And I think he was being generous. I can think of other reasons one might want to do this, but expounding on them would have gotten me banned on Facebook and Twitter and I choose to be more polite on Mastodon. 😉 )