Some people have convinced themselves they can disrupt anything.

I'm sort of torn between that reaction and "hey, this seems similar logistics-wise to that space solar project I'm kicking off next week"...

Asimov described a similar thing in I Robot. I imagine it'd create very unpredictable climate issues.

"As many as VC money is prepared to pay for" is the answer here.

I’m pretty sure it is the eternal fate of Russian physicists to have worked out the math, but to not have the funding or engineering to implement a thing, right? So, I guess that fact, at least, doesn’t tell us much of anything.