Comment by bandrami
12 hours ago
Literally none. Space is the worst possible place to put something that overheats already on earth. There's probably some synergy in the other direction (AI piloting of satellites or whatever) but that's marginal at best.
I've sure they've considered that in the engineering. For example, the solar panels would shade it. The space station has a cooling system in it. Musk's Starlink satellites don't seem to be overheating.
The problem is not shading them from the Sun. And the starlink satellites run at about 1 kW
good read: https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horri...
that's an amazing read, lots of concrete and convincing challenges; but otoh, technology is evolving at such a fast pace, maybe it is possible for breakthroughs that we couldn't imagine now to become reality sooner than we would have anticipated?
It is a good read. Thank you.
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So the whole space based data center thing is just a gimmick?
A gimmick, in a highly-financialized field? Surely not!