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It's still going to be what, $100,000 per ton to launch on Starship? The AI1 Satellite that SpaceX has shown, is basically one rack. Something like 72 GPUs. El
by olyjohn 4mo ago
It's still going to be what, $100,000 per ton to launch on Starship?
The AI1 Satellite that SpaceX has shown, is basically one rack. Something like 72 GPUs. Elon himself said it was a "rack in space" more than a datacenter in space. Sure I guess you could launch 100,000 of them and call it a datacenter. But their own graphic shows this thing to be 2 to 2 1/2 tons. So who is gonna spend $200,000 to launch a single rack into space? Get the panels as cheap as you want, the launch cost is still pretty massive just to get 150kw of free power.
I mean maybe my napkin math is way wrong here, but I don't see what the cost savings is.
- orwin 4mo agoIt won't work btw, unless they don't put the satellites in LEO. Earth radiate away big time (it's like 200K in earth shadow in LEO