Are you asserting that we must use the exact same heat rejection architecture the ISS uses for data centers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_droplet_radiator

walrus01 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The problem of the $ per kg to launch huge radiators and "orbital datacenter" type stuff of satellites into space doesn't seem to be resolving itself any time soon. Even if we hand wave away and say that 5 years from now the starship will be such a spectacular success than it costs only $200 per kg to send stuff into space (drastically lower than what it costs now), it would still be vastly less expensive to build a terrestrial solar datacenter in the middle of the southern Libyan desert than it would be to do the same amount of compute in space.

	▲	Marha01 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> it would still be vastly less expensive to build a terrestrial solar datacenter in the middle of the southern Libyan desert than it would be to do the same amount of compute in space. Perhaps, but the parent comment posited that some people would pay the premium for orbital data center due to much better security. At $200 per kg to orbit, it could make sense.
	▲	fragmede an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		With the caveat that Libya, being located upon Earth, is affected by solar power not working at night or when it's cloudy, and is also subject to being in Libya, which is a country with bureaucrats that are going to subject anything built in the country to their laws.

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evgen 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So the "some day in the future" orbiting data centers proposed by a known fraudster will use an experimental-at-best radiator technology that has never been tested in flight yet? That tracks.

	▲	Marha01 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Orbital data center constellations are also studied by Google, the idea is not just from Elon.