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>>g-mork+(OP)
I still don't understand the "data center in space" narrative. How are they going to solve the cooling issue?

>>Saline+v3
Cooling a datacenter in space isn't really any harder than cooling a starlink in space, the ratio of solar panels to radiating area will have to be about the same. There is nothing uniquely heat-producing about GPUs, ultimately almost all energy collected by a satellite's solar panels ends up as heat in the satellite.

IMO the big problem is the lack of maintainability.

>>sebzim+94
Sure, but cooling a starlink in space is a lot more difficult than cooling a starlink on earth would be. And unlike starlink which absolutely must be in space in order to function, data centers work just fine on the ground.

>>nicobu+e5
This. There's no scenario where it's cheaper to put them in space.