By Futurist Thomas Frey
When the Cloud Literally Leaves Earth
Companies are planning data centers in space—orbiting facilities storing information beyond any nation’s physical borders. The appeal is obvious: escape terrestrial regulations, reduce latency for global communications, and operate in environments with natural cooling and abundant solar power. But here’s the question nobody’s answered clearly: whose laws govern a data center floating 200 miles above Earth?
The answer is more complicated than “nobody’s” and less clear than “everybody’s.” Welcome to the legal frontier where space law, data sovereignty, and corporate ambition collide in ways that will define the next era of information control.
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