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Physical datahavens only really have meaning if it gets you associated legal services (payment processing, incorp, legal); once banking is fully virtualized, you can do purely online entities too. So yes, datahavens will happen -- they will just be a mix of strongly-associated-with-physical-jurisdiction things, and virtualized things.

The USA is basically a datahaven today for many things, and has been for a while.

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I would love to read more about Sealand. Any sources you would recommend? Most articles I've stumbled upon weren't very informative.

slashdot had a bunch of things; I did a Q&A there, and maybe 10 other articles got posted. That, the wikipedia article, and the wired article are probably the best overall information.

Fully virtualized payment processing exists: Bitcoin. In fact, the decentralized and independent currency fits very well the philosophy of micronations like Sealand: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=8475.0

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