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The Starlink constellation cost $10 billion. That’s comparable to a small data center (maybe 50,000 gpus).

If launch costs keep dropping and environmental costs keep rising, space based data centers will make sense.

>>GMorom+(OP)
What a ridiculous waste of money.

>>GMorom+(OP)
Land cost will also start to matter, but probably not at the scale that Starlink is doing. Regardless, orbitals are real estate.

>>nish__+D2
What? Starlink made $72,000,000 in net profit last year. How is that a waste of money?

>>amitav+UU
Where are you getting those numbers? SpaceX is a private company.

>>GMorom+(OP)
Comparable in cost or capacity? Small datacenter is maybe around 20MW of compute.