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		myhf 14 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Datacenters in space aren't going to work To say the even quieter part out loud, datacenters are colonial encampments (like energy projects). Space has no indigenous people to colonize.

titanomachy 14 days ago [–]

Ok, but couldn’t you equally say that about anything constructed by industrialized people in places that used to have lots of non-industrialized people?

cess11 14 days ago | [–]

Yes. Industrialisation and its aftermath has been quite gruesome for a very long time.

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