You think this is done to save costs? NO! This is costing more money to actively dismantle them than it would be to just abandon them. The administration is intentionally and specifically trying to destroy scientific evidence of climate change. If they just abandoned them, the next administration could reactivate and repair them.

People in the libertarian SV techbro world actually fall for the randian crap and believe that’s what they are getting.

And that’s the charitable interpretation.