Data Centers in Space: Physics Does Not Oppose It, but Their Size and Consequences Raise Questions

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While Google has just put in orbit a mini-data center dedicated to the AI, many actors are advocating the massive use of space to save water and energy on Earth. An attractive idea in appearance, but the effects of which question "A first step towards the crossing to level II of the Kardashev scale*, that of a civilization capable of exploiting all the energy of the Sun." As usual, Elon Musk did not do in half measure while SpaceX, in February, …