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>>lawren+(OP)
Lots of funny comments here, but does anyone actually have a good argument against this idea?

It seems both ridiculous and obvious.

>>owenpa+Y3
To passively radiate a gigawatt of heat in space at 100C, you'd need a radiator with a (visible) surface area of 1 million square meters.

>>yorick+l5
so you're saying its possible

>>Discou+y5
Not for “$5 million in launch costs” per 40MW compute unit. Sure, many things are possible with enough money, but their “Table 1” is a pretty bald-faced lie. Just the weight of 40MW’s worth of H100 GPU’s alone would be $200 million in launch costs on a Falcon Heavy. That’s before you even add on launch costs for solar panels or “magic” not-invented-yet radiator panels.

The first question isn’t whether it’s “possible” with enough money, it’s whether it could ever be within even an order of magnitude of “profitable”. The second question is why would you trust a company who provides these kinds of estimates with no reasonable explanation for these obvious massive discrepancies?