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1. smlacy+Yl[view] [source] 2025-11-04 18:58:21
>>meetpa+(OP)
The ultimate "out of sight out of mind" solution to a problem?

I'm surprised that Google has drunken the "Datacenters IN SPACE!!!1!!" kool-aid. Honestly I expected more.

It's so easy to poke a hole in these systems that it's comical. Answer just one question: How/why is this better than an enormous solar-powered datacenter in someplace like the middle of the Mojave Desert?

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2. alooPo+tm[view] [source] 2025-11-04 19:00:45
>>smlacy+Yl
From the post they claim 8 times more solar energy and no need for batteries because they are continuously in the sun. Presumably at some scale and some cost/kg to orbit this starts to pencil out?
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3. ceejay+Co[view] [source] 2025-11-04 19:13:41
>>alooPo+tm
You're trading an 8x smaller low-maintenance solid-state solar field for a massive probably high-maintenance liquid-based radiator field.
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4. wongar+rq[view] [source] 2025-11-04 19:24:52
>>ceejay+Co
Can't be high maintenance if we just make it uncrewed, unserviceable and send any data center with catastrophically failed cooling to Point Nemo /s
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5. TeMPOr+EC[view] [source] 2025-11-04 20:42:16
>>wongar+rq
If it can be all mostly solid-state, then it's low-maintenace. Also design it to burn up before MTTF, like all cool space kids do these days. Not gonna be worse at Starlink unless this gets massively scaled up, which it's meant to be (ecological footprint left as an exercise to the reader).
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