Comment by jppope

This is why I come to this site. Obviously, Twitter's financials are struggling and theres more than a few people rich people who don't want to take the hit... but we can all drop that for a second to discuss the plausibility of data centers in space. Some links and comments I enjoyed:

  * https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/
  * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiangong_space_station
  * "Technically challenging", a nice way to say "impossible"
  * "I’m not that smart, but if I were, I would be thinking this is an extended way to move the losses from the Twitter purchase on to the public markets."
  * "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."
  * "5,000 Starship launches to match the solar/heat budget of the 10GW "Stargate" OpenAI datacenter. The Falcon 9 family has achieved over 600 launches." [nerdsniper]
  * "No, we just "assume" (i.e. know) that radiation in a vacuum is a really bad way of dissipating heat, to the point that we use vacuum as a very effective insulator on earth."
  * "World's Best At Surfing A Temporary Hyperinflation Wave is not a life goal to really be proud of tbh"