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>>jonbae+(OP)
They state that in 10 years all data centers will be in outer space. I state that in 10 years we will look back and think this was a ridiculous idea. The meta and maintenance costs, the pollution of sending them to space, the space pollution itself, the outer space radiation, the extra redundant error correction needed*,* and much more all speak against this. Why not throw that trillion dollars into optical computing chip research? Why not create better sustainable methods here on earth*?* We could run a single data center down here, or pay a million times moreto do this in space. The argument that we are polluting Earth down here is very weak. Yes, we do, but why on earth do we then not invest more in research for solving these problems*?* There are startups out there that will one day solve these issues. And then space data centers will be something for the Star Trek age, which humanity will probably never achieve.

>>0xcb0+u7
I think the bigger thing about a space-based data center that it's not on anyone's land, and not easy to inspect or capture.

Solar energy available around the clock allows it to be self-sufficient for a long time.

I suppose there will be some demand for high-security, high-price setups like that.

>>nine_k+49
Either the satellite is geostationary and doesn't have 24h / 24h sun exposure as energy source.

Or they are not geostationary but it also means the datacenter will connect to a different earth base station which means the data access route would change and latency would increase which would be unacceptable for a lot of use cases.

You would then need to replicate and synchronise customer data across the different space data centres to make it possible to access said data in constant and low-latency time.

>>LunaSe+Al
> Either the satellite is geostationary and doesn't have 24h / 24h sun exposure as energy source.

Due to the Earth's axial tilt [1], geostationary orbits generally have 24 hour sun exposure, except for a few minutes a day around the equinoxes [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_tilt

[2] https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/our-satellites/currently-flying/...

>>dablue+oM
You can even see this in action via NOAA's CCOR-1: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/earth-makes-appearances-goes-...