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What a crazy idea. Cost to orbit is huge. Power availability will depend on pushing enough solar up there. Data centres use lots of power. Getting rid of ex
by zgs 2y ago
What a crazy idea.
Cost to orbit is huge. Power availability will depend on pushing enough solar up there. Data centres use lots of power.
Getting rid of excess heat is a major problem in space and data centres generate lots of it. Terrestrial cooling is trivial in comparison.
Hardware obsolesce will be a major hurdle as will repairing stuff that fails.
Radiation is a significant problem in space. Shielding will be very heavy or the hardware will have to be build tolerant which is much more expensive and results in a much slower solution.
Much easier and cheaper to install lots of solar and batteries in the middle of a sunny desert somewhere really cheap and build your data centre there. Then build fibre connections to wherever.