| ▲ | credit_guy 3 hours ago | |
Why? It seems to me to be much cheaper than a building. Musk's aim is for the cost of one Starship launch to be under $10 million in the long run. 50 rocket launches would be less than half a billion dollars. Can you get a datacenter built on the ground for half a billion dollars? | ||
| ▲ | sumeno 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Half a billion in JUST the rocket launches, you've still got to build the actual data center too. That's assuming he can get launches down to $10 million which I'm sure will be right behind his flying roadster and cybertruck boat | ||
| ▲ | adgjlsfhk1 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
The comparison isn't half a billion for a datacenter, it's half a billion for a big shed (and some solar panels). The problem of space based data centers is that the only effort they save you is building a big shed to put the GPUs in (and potentially cheaper power at the cost of more expensive cooling) | ||
| ▲ | LearnYouALisp an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Are you for real? HN yep | ||