yeah, but: Data centers, fundamentally, are a solved problem. The rest is just cost balancing - and space looks like complete rubbish when it comes to all kinds of costs, including and especially when it comes to maintenance.

This sounds like someone who concludes that FTL is possible because “once people thought that flight was impossible!”

But we have and had ample evidence of flight in nature, we just didn’t understand how it worked. A similar search across the observable universe reveals no sign of FTL behavior.

Sometimes when you understand the science a comparison to some time when people didn’t isn’t as moving or compelling as you seem to imagine.