Right now, X is stirring up racial violence in Belfast
Granted, that’s on Earth, but if it got bad enough the UK government could decide to just block it or even arrest local X staff
That’s impossible if it’s in space and beaming directly to everyone’s phones
Remember these people believe super intelligent AI is right around the corner
And that it will be running companies, manipulating countries, and commanding armies
In that scenario having the AI physically out of reach of everyone is valuable
Larry Ellison is closer to being broke than he is to being as rich as Elon.
There is one reason to put data centers in space: so you can put them beyond the reach of earthly laws
Money laundering and tax evasion mostly
Of course the law could be updated to treat them as local to one country, but it probably won’t
Btw I worked for a company that successfully put a few conventional largish servers on the ISS
It was paid for by the marketing department
Because it was marketing
You don’t need a huge amount of AI in space
Just one, that can’t be turned off
And can do things that would be illegal here on Earth
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