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bartread 11 hours ago

All of this and more.

For example: quite apart from the fact of how much rocket fuel is it going to take to haul all this shit up there at the kind of scale that would make these space data centres even remotely worthwhile.

I'm not against space travel or space exploration, or putting useful satellites in orbit, or the advancement of science or anything like that - quite the opposite in fact, I love all this stuff. But it has to be for something that matters.

Not for some deranged billionaire's boondoggle that makes no sense. I am so inexpressibly tired of all these guys and their stupid, arrogant, high-handed schemes.

Because rocket fuels are extremely toxic and the environmental impact of pointlessly burning a vast quantity of rocket fuel for something as nonsensical as data centres in space will be appalling.

ianburrell 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Starship is fueled with methane (natural gas) and liquid oxygen which aren't toxic. It does produce a lot of CO2 which is a problem with lots of flights.

afiori 7 hours ago | parent [-]

IIRC the methane is produced at launch site with considerable pollution

energy123 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Does that emit more than Elon's terrestrial data centers powered by natural gas, per unit of compute?