Rare earths everywhere, why deep sea mining, why data centres in space?

All these rhetoric about mining rare earth under the sea and in space and building Data Centers in space and on the moon are just to attempt to scare China.

If rare earths are already so abundant on land, why go to such lengths to mine them under the ocean and in space? And then what can they do when China still controls the processing logistics?

If the USA already has so much land to spare for building Data Centers, why go into space to build them? Oh, they said the reason was lack of energy and space has plenty of it. To harness such energy, Musk will have to build solar energy infrastructures the size of which cannot be imagined. Such infrastructures face severe maintenance problems if they break down, unlike on earth. Think about it.


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