| ▲ | bandrami 5 hours ago |
| Literally none. Space is the worst possible place to put something that overheats already on earth. There's probably some synergy in the other direction (AI piloting of satellites or whatever) but that's marginal at best. |
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| ▲ | WalterBright 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I've sure they've considered that in the engineering. For example, the solar panels would shade it. The space station has a cooling system in it. Musk's Starlink satellites don't seem to be overheating. |
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| ▲ | bandrami 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The problem is not shading them from the Sun. And the starlink satellites run at about 1 kW | |
| ▲ | bdangubic 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | good read: https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horri... | | |
| ▲ | teacpde 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | that's an amazing read, lots of concrete and convincing challenges; but otoh, technology is evolving at such a fast pace, maybe it is possible for breakthroughs that we couldn't imagine now to become reality sooner than we would have anticipated? | |
| ▲ | WalterBright 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It is a good read. Thank you. | | |
| ▲ | WalterBright an hour ago | parent [-] | | There's another way to look at it, though. If the data center satellites can be built and launched cheap enough, you can still come out ahead on performance/cost. I.e. if the space data center has 1/10 the performance of a ground one, and they can be built and launched for less than 10% of the cost, then you've got a business. And there are costs that won't be incurred - no electric bill, no cost for land, no charge for maintenance. I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss Musk. |
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| ▲ | mkull 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| So the whole space based data center thing is just a gimmick? |
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