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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.

>>alangi+Q6
I think there's a lot of a room for an energy play that will ultimately obviate the enormously costly terrestrial energy supply chain.

>>ibejoe+ib
You can just use the cheap solar panels that were gonna be launched into space (expensive) and not launch them into space (not expensive) and plug them into some batteries (still, cheaper than a rocket launch)