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>Almost every single objection to data centers in space has already been overcome at a smaller scale with Starlink Did you not read the article? It had many ob

• GMoromisato 10mo ago
  Starlink is already a small data center! It has power, radiators, and compute! It needs to be scaled up, but there is no obstacle to that (at least none that the article mentions). The only valid objection is cost, but space prices keep dropping and earth prices keep rising.
  • qayxc 10mo ago
    > Starlink is already a small data center! It has power, radiators, and compute! It is not. This is like saying your phone is already a small data centre. While technically true, we're not talking about the same scale here. StarLink's compute power is a tiny fraction of a modern data centre GPU/TPU. Most of the power budget goes into communication (i.e. its purpose!).