SpaceX and Google Are in Talks to Launch Data Centers in Orbit

These things are dead in the water.

Agreed - they'll never get high enough to crash.

Heat disposal and special purpose electronics for both reliability and ability to survive both launch vibration and on-orbit heat and radiation will make this impractically expensive.

The question is: why is this being pushed publicly?

	▲	tim-tday 39 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You are laboring under a misconception. You picture a data center as four walls shoved full of servers. You should picture instead a gpu + ram + cpu upgrade for a starlink plus node with compute capabilities. Now rinse and repeat a million times. Can starlink work? (Proven) Can starlink increase their solar power and heat distribution capacity by 50% (probably) Does starlink have fast, redundant data connections within the cluster and between the cluster and the ground (proven)

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fortran77 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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