Comment by alangibson
13 hours ago
ISS radiators run on water and ammonia. Think about how much a kg costs to lift to space and you'll see the economics of space data centers fall apart real fast. Plus, if the radiator springs a leak the satellite is scrap.
The point of the Starship program is to drop the cost of a kg going to space significantly - this isn't meant to be launched with rockets that aren't fully reusable.
Even if power cost nothing the limiting factor on data center value creation is distance to where the data is requested. Putting it in space is dumb.
Not all AI workloads are latency sensitive.