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>>wiley1+(OP)
Can this possibly make financial sense even if launch costs were zero?

One NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD consumes 10 kW which would be ~500 square feet of solar panels and ~100 square feet of radiator area.

>>xnx+tc
https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/companies/article/th...

> Their design calls for a cluster of shipping container-style boxes packed with high-speed AI chips. These would be anchored at the centre of a 16 sq km array of solar panels generating up to five gigawatts of power — about 25 per cent more than Drax, Britain’s biggest power station. The mammoth structure would circle the Earth in “sun synchronous” orbit so that it is never in shade

>>transp+Df
A continuous five gigawatts of power would be seriously impressive. I think that's about $12 million/day (terrestrial prices).

This plan seems about as realistic as Bluthton though. https://www.reddit.com/r/arresteddevelopment/comments/1gtyvv...