What we need is a dozen geo-stationary satelites. Heck, we should have bought MIR ;o)
Okay, for $120 million I can get you a geosynchronous orbit (Clarke orbit) satellite for your needs. But, keep in mind that you need at least 3 to be visible from all parts of the Earth. Geosynch slots are another matter, and you'd need to buy these from Tonga, Kenya, etc.
I can get you a duplicate of Mir exactly the way it was when first launched - just core module and docking port. $2.2 billion. Built by the same people who built the original. Launched by the same people who built the original. Progress and Soyuz flights to visit are extra, and run about $35 million for Soyuz and $15 million for Progress. (Progress is the unmanned resupply "freighter" needed to resupply stationkeeping fuel, etc.)
For a mere $450 million I can get you a lunar lander, so your servers would be on the surface of the Moon. Deficit - the Moon isn't always in the sky where you are. Advantage - it is radiation hardened with a big mass covering 180 degrees of your systems. For a bit more we could get the Russians to make their Lunokhod so it puts dirt on top of every part of itself except the antenna. Battery resupply isn't needed, these things run on radioisotope thermoelectric generators.
But, what makes you think that satellites or lunar modules won't be targets for Big Brother? Since about 1986, Russia has been known to have ground based lasers powerful enough to blind USA spy satellites. Roughly that time was when the USA developed its fighter jet mounted anti-sat missile.
Regards,
Jim http://www.houstonspacesociety.org/
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