Comment by scirob
1 month ago
Putting data centers in Antarctica or extreme north Canadian islands would also put you out of the way of molotov-throwing joe public. Even in space your not safe from the voting public as long as your companies directors are sitting on earth somewhere.
Yeah, but those places don’t have 24/7 solar energy
google: orbit
it does not see the sun half of the time
polar orbits don't come to the rescue, they are quite busy already
Sun-synchronous orbit gets sunlight ~100% of the time.
From TFA:
> In low Earth orbit, satellites can access near-constant sunlight, generating up to eight times more solar power than on Earth.
That's obviously a reference to sun-synchronous orbit. You don't get 8 times more solar power in a low inclination orbit.
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