alt Hacker NewsThe Outer Space Treaty [1] says "A State Party to the Treaty on whose registry an object launched into outer space is carried shall retain jurisdiction and control over such object", so no escaping jurisdiction.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty_of_1967#Ar...
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LargoLasskhyfv • today at 12:30 PM
Resurrect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Dragon_(rocket) , launch it 'anonymously' from international waters?
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It is worth noting that this is also identical to the way in which international waters works as well, so there's plenty of legal precedent.
But it's also irrelevant: all your infrastructure supporting such a thing, including your ability to fund it, is on Earth, in someone's jurisdiction.
The US government is hardly going to say "well the datacenter is in space, guess there's nothing we can do about the owner who lives in California..."