A) I never said it had to be done in space itself
B) it can be intercepted in "atmo" a number of ways by conventional weapons
C) even in space it would be easy pickings for any government to steal or disable even if they didn't just shoot it down

... that being said imagine how cool it would be to host your ASICs i space heat won't be an issue and solar powered for 24/7. Bet the only problem would be the bandwith/ "Satellite phone" bill. [Edit] oh yeah and latency.