Comment by XorNot

Do you imagine there'd be less red tape involved in launching multiple rockets per day carrying heavy payloads?

Like this argument just gets absurd: you're claiming building a data center on earth will be harder from a permitting perspective than FAA flight approval for multiple heavy lift rocket launch and landing cycles.

Mining companies routinely open and close enormous surface area mines all over the world and manage permitting for that just fine.

There's plenty of land no one will care if your build anything on, and being remote with maybe poor access roads is still going to be enormously cheaper then launching a state of the art heavy lift rocket which doesn't actually exist yet.