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>>mindra+(OP)
To say the quiet part out loud, I don't think any serious companies have any intention to build a data center in space. There is no benefit in actually trying this. There is however, benefit in saying you'll do it to advance a narrative and distract from the problems terrestrial data centers are facing to an audience that mostly doesn't understand how heat transfer in a vacuum works.

>>collin+JH1
Elon is 100% planning to put significant ai compute in space. He is probably planning to do it in a decentralized way.

He has the launch platform (spacex), he has the existing power and data infrastructure (starlink), he has the demand side. (Xai)

Will he succeed? That is different question. Is it possible to add enough power generation and thermal radiative capacity to starlink nodes to bother? Don’t know, but an analysis that fails to answer those two specific engineering questions is useless.