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> Table 1: Cost comparison of a single 40MW cluster operated for 10 years in space vs on land…

> Cooling (water usage): Land: 1.7m tons vs. Space: None

They completely ignore the cost of 40MW of radiative cooling in the “Cost comparison” table. Then they have a section saying “we’re inventing something to dissipate gigawatts of energy into space.”

So the cost comparison is entirely misleading, and that critical lie by omission makes it very hard to take them at face value about literally anything else.

>>reaper+(OP)
Yeah and there are other things here. A terrestrial data center can be maintained. That is kinda hard in space.

So if they just assume things run till they die, that space data center is a totally different kind of calculation compared to a terrestrial one.

And that just scratches the first inches of the massive underbelly of this ice berg of hidden costs.