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This article appeared in the February 25, 2026 edition of the Monitor Daily.

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Why space needs a cleanup

Ira Porter
Education Writer

Space: the final frontier, where no man has gone before. Except we all know that isn鈥檛 true, and according to an interesting story today by my colleague, Stephen Humphries, humankind鈥檚 inventions will be a more prominent and important fixture out there in the future. Tech giants are looking to celestial spaces to relocate their ever-expanding, resource-gobbling data centers. They want to launch millions of refrigerator-sized storage satellites into the cosmos.

It sounds like a good fix to earthly problems 鈥 land-based data storage facilities consume millions of gallons of water per day 鈥 but satellites cause dangerous space debris. Welcome to the bold new frontier of environmental protection: cleaning up space.


This article appeared in the February 25, 2026 edition of the Monitor Daily.

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