"You can play around with the cost sliders to estimate the economics, but even being quite optimistic, space data centers cost ~2-3x of their terrestrial counterparts."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491425

The idea is marketing for the stock price and enterprise value. If SpaceX does do it, it'll be analogous to Tesla's "Supervised Full Self Driving." "We run a Kubernetes cluster with some models on the satellites."

https://andrewmccalip.com/space-datacenters

If you see a datacenter in orbit, it means something went wrong on Earth - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935384 - July 2026 (0 comments)

The Space Data Centers Situation is Insane [video] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qpdUNMt2yg - June 27th, 2026

Thermodynamics rules future orbital data centers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48490094 - June 2026 (107 comments)

(reply to your deleted share link from Claude: please don't reply with AI slop)

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