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>>lawren+(OP)
I saw a few posts about this and thought it was a joke. This tweet sums it up:

YC company announces a giant data center in space

Startup Twitter: Makes so much sense, it will be so easy to cool in space!

Space Twitter: How the hell are they proposing to keep it cool??

https://x.com/mouthofmorrison/status/1831680658927669632

>>slyall+j2
But their video is so pretty! https://www.lumenorbit.com/

> As launch costs fall, orbital data centers will leverage 24/7 solar energy and _passive cooling_, rapidly deploying to gigawatt-scale, avoiding permitting constraints on Earth.

It sounds like they want to use copper heatspreaders and radiators to dump gigawatts into space. From those little pods connected to the spine... without any active cooling components

Oh dear.