Ask HN: Does Starship mean that data centers will soon be in orbit?

- $3 million per 150 tons is still massively expensive.

- Mass rocket launches are horrendous for the climate because of the resources and energy they require (not to speak of the huge mass of hydrogen/methane for every ton).

- Servers certainly can't be manufactured in space.

- Housing humans to maintain them is too expensive.

- Power in space is expensive.

- Radiating heat away in space is very expensive, and a luxury we take for granted on Earth.

- Shipping parts to space is slow and expensive.

- Modern computers don't like all the radiation in space.

I could go on and on, but basically, doing anything in space is hilariously expensive, and theres no reason to do it unless you absolutely have to be in space for it, like space telescopes, probes, comms or zero gravity experiments. Go play Kerbal Space Program for a bit, and it will expunge whatever dreams of mass space industry you have from your brain :P

EDIT: Now, there is a case for sending small amounts of equipment for scientists to use, or maybe to process data before transmission. HP servers have already been sent to space, see https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/hardware/space-final-fro....