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Computing produces a lot of waste heat which is difficult to deal with in space. The cooling system of the ISS can radiate a total of 100kW for example. I thin
by _Microft 6y ago
Computing produces a lot of waste heat which is difficult to deal with in space. The cooling system of the ISS can radiate a total of 100kW for example.
I think it is unlikely that we will see data centers in space unless it is absolutely unavoidable, e.g. because of lag between Earth and the place (in space) where the data is needed.
- hinkley 6y agoStarlink's target is lower latency (because speed of light in low earth orbit is 30% higher than speed of light in fiber optics). A CDN sending or storing their consumer facing data via satellite makes no sense. But control plane data? Maybe. Cut 30 ms off of SF to NYC and how you manage consensus might change quite a bit.
- yazaddaruvala 6y agoKeep the stateless, replicated, CDN content all on the ground. Put the global (no longer replicated) datastore in space, and let me run some simple Lambda functions. Low latency, atomic transactions from anywhere in the world! Yes please!
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoThat could be solved by 'spray cooling', where you have a liquid cooling medium which is sprayed out of some nozzles on a beam in one direction through open space for some distance, and then recaptured by some other beam/vane/paddle opposite the spraying nozzles.