Lots of terrestrial locations have the grid. That's nearly 24/7 and it's dirt cheap compared to rockets. There are many places where land is cheap and permitting is easy. They may not be exactly where you'd prefer, but they're going to be a lot closer than space. Stable, proven comm links are easily available in the form of fiber lines. Many of these places are in stable countries where there's no realistic physical threat against your data center. And if people think that putting equipment in space somehow gets them away from regulation, they're going to be in for a very rude shock. Unless they themselves are going to go live in space, they're still very much subject to regulation.
Are you close to this problem space and trying to educate people who aren't, or are you just making guesses here and trying to convince some rando? I have no actual stakes in this game, I'm just trying to understand what data the decision makers are seeing that leads them towards the Datacenters in Space path.
