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Let's ask @DrPhiltill, NASA planetary scientist and director of the Stephen W. Hawking Center for Microgravity Research and Education at @UCF, about data centers in space... "My calculations show 10 years from now it'll be cheaper to build a large data center in space than to build it on Earth. Largely because of the cost of delay from permitting. A very large data center might make $20 billion of revenue a year, and so a 2-year delay could be a $40 billion loss. Meanwhile the cost of launch is coming down dramatically. These technologies are gonna become more efficient. We're gonna be developing lower mass radiators. And so as the technologies improve, costs come down, there's a crossing point where space is cheaper than Earth." I was surprised when @JeffBezos, Eric Schmidt and several others came out with the exact same number. They all said 10 to 20 years. Now @elonmusk said 3 years. The standing joke in the space industry is Elon time, you have to multiply by 3. So, that's about the same as everybody else is saying."