So my tentative conclusion is that if launch costs don’t decrease enough, and permitting and security end up being a big problem in space, there’s an opportunity for a “SpaceX of the sea” or “SpaceX of Antarctica” to build terrestrial datacenters. But by Niplav’s Law of One Player, it won’t happen unless you do it.
SpaceX is under a legal regime where it’s forbidden to export rocket technology without permission. I would expect that the US government would not want give the permission to escape it’s cone of influence.
So my tentative conclusion is that if launch costs don’t decrease enough, and permitting and security end up being a big problem in space, there’s an opportunity for a “SpaceX of the sea” or “SpaceX of Antarctica” to build terrestrial datacenters. But by Niplav’s Law of One Player, it won’t happen unless you do it.
(Niplav’s law of one player’s footnote would consider a SpaceX of the sea/Antartica to be an exception)
SpaceX is under a legal regime where it’s forbidden to export rocket technology without permission. I would expect that the US government would not want give the permission to escape it’s cone of influence.