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Comment by ethbr1

18 hours ago

In situ iron, titanium, aluminum?

But none of those are usable, right? It will take decades of work at least to get a commercial grade mining operation going and even then the iron, titanium, aluminum would need to be fashioned...

Ah, I see the idea now. It is to get people to talk about robotics and how robots will be able to do all this on the moon or wherever.

Instantly pumps Tesla stock here now on earth!

That's a hard problem to solve. Invest enough in solving that problem and you might get the ability to manufacture a radiator out of it, but you're still going to have to transport the majority of your datacenter to the moon. That probably works out more expensive than launching the whole thing to LEO