The only place where a space data center makes sense is in Mars orbit to reduce the amount of mass that needs to be landed. Every thing else is a smoke and mirrors game to justify rolling a bunch of failed businesses into SpaceX.

No.

Definitely need to see a Microsoft data centre in Uranus.

Sorry. Not sorry.

From the article:

Conclusions

Orbital data centers look more viable than we expected going in and the case rests primarily on launch cost. The engineering challenges seem significant but none appear intractable. Commercial off-the-shelf solar, passive radiators, and standard error-correcting codes seem sufficient for a baseline architecture. We expect limited demos and shipments of compute to orbit in the coming years but our best estimate is that orbital data centers are unlikely to represent a meaningful share of compute before 2030. They might scale quickly thereafter however, and are more likely to be bottlenecked by chip production rates rather than by launch cadence. A generally important dynamic is that terrestrial data centers likely face headwinds that worsen as compute scales up while orbital data centers face constraints that relax with scale.

We kinda already have IMO.

Starcloud-1 is already in orbit, and many other plans by them and other firms are already well into development.

And Lonestar has a backup server on the moon. Seriously.

[delayed]

I thought this was one of these joke websites that just say "No."

I mean, Elon will probably shoot some GPUs up there and call it a success, but I'm not sure that should could at "data centers in space."