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SpaceX and Google Are in Talks to Launch Data Centers in Orbit
- fortran77 5mo agoWSJ Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/spacex-google-in-talks-to-explore-data-centers-in-orbit-7b7799e2?st=PEF9hy&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink https://www.wsj.com/tech/spacex-google-in-talks-to-explore-d...
- msie 5mo agoThese things are dead in the water.
- bediger4000 5mo agoAgreed - they'll never get high enough to crash. Heat disposal and special purpose electronics for both reliability and ability to survive both launch vibration and on-orbit heat and radiation will make this impractically expensive. The question is: why is this being pushed publicly?
- tim-tday 5mo agoYou are laboring under a misconception. You picture a data center as four walls shoved full of servers. You should picture instead a gpu + ram + cpu upgrade for a starlink plus node with compute capabilities. Now rinse and repeat a million times. Can starlink work? (Proven) Can starlink increase their solar power and heat distribution capacity by 50% (probably) Does starlink have fast, redundant data connections within the cluster and between the cluster and the ground (proven)