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		myhf 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months ago | [–]

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

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