I'm not sure about that. There are a lot of issues to consider, like how you get the materials back to earth and how you avoid creating lots of debris that poses a hazard to other spacecraft.
Those are probably solvable, but not very easy. And it's not unimaginable that we might not want to take some of the materials back to earth, but rather use them to construct things elsewhere.
In other words, maybe Google really will build a moonbase someday. I just hope I live to see it.
> and how you avoid creating lots of debris that poses a hazard to other spacecraft.
Debris is a considerable hazard. NASA tracks about 21,000 items bigger than 10 cm. They estimate there are about 500,000 items between 10 cm and 1 cm. They estimate there are 100 million items smaller than 1 cm.
These items are travelling at about 7 km per second. The average impact speed is about 10 km/s.
Those are probably solvable, but not very easy. And it's not unimaginable that we might not want to take some of the materials back to earth, but rather use them to construct things elsewhere.
In other words, maybe Google really will build a moonbase someday. I just hope I live to see it.