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> Data centers in space only make sense if they are cost effective relative to normal data centers.

This statement is actually completely false. The bottleneck is not cost of building data centers, but the energy accessible on the planet. How much we're willing to pay for increasing that is currently very unclear, but it's far more than the current cost of building a terrestrial data center.

As Jensen Huang famously touted their performance per watt, saying "Our customers won't buy our competitor's chips even if they were free."

>>rishab+(OP)
> This statement is actually completely false. The bottleneck is not cost of building data centers, but the energy accessible on the planet.

How much of energy will it take to launch the same amount of compute, connectivity, and PV to power it into space?

>>danans+L
Good question.