Far above the planet, in the emptiness of space, data centers wouldn’t take up precious land or require as much energy and water for cooling. They wouldn’t release warming greenhouse gases into the atmosphere either.

How does the CO2 required to launch a data center into space compare to the CO2 emitted by the data center over its life time?

I'd also assume you'd have to have extremely resilient and reliable hardware? You can't just go up and replace a switch if it malfunctions. The cost would be astronomical for such extremely redunancy/resiliency?