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It may seem strange, at least to me, but the company Lumen Orbit (YCS24) [1] aims to offer data centers in space. If they, or another similar company, succeed in the future, it could change jurisdictional rules.

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lumen-orbit




Lots of companies are (or will be) offering "cloud services" in LEO, including SpaceX. However, none of that is relevant to this situation.


Their servers may be in space, but they'll still need to collect ad money from somewhere on Earth.


not at all..

twitter servers are in the US yet they are having problems in brazil..

If server are in space and company refuse to abide to each country laws they will have the access to their servers blocked just the same..




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