> Space-based datacenters simply won't work.

Everybody knows.

Musk is a snake oil salesman (that’s been clear since the self-driving car promises) but he also has made a lot of people a lot of money and that’s all anybody really cares about.

None of his companies have a traditionally reasonable valuation. Is there any reason to think that’s going to change soon?

Can anyone explain how the thermals will work? One of the biggest challenges on Earth is cooling the data center, and it's at least as challenging in space.

> won’t work

A datacenter (earthbound or space) itself is a fantastical idea until a mix of events and inventions made it feasible to build them to sell compute.

You think the military can’t or won’t dump billions into this to make killing people with drones more effective?

It’s a engineering challenge not impossible.