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Comment by DoctorOetker

2 hours ago

I made an example calculation at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867402

For a 230 kW cluster: 16 x DGX (8x)B200; we arrived at a 30m x 30m solar PV area, and a 90 meter distance from the center of the solar array to the tip of the pyramid.

1 GW = 4348 x 230 kW

sqrt(4348)= ~66

so launch 4348 of the systems described in the calculation I linked, or if you insist on housing them next to each other:

the base length becomes 30 m x 66 = 1980 m = ~ 2 km. the distance from center of square solar array to the tip of the pyramid became 6 km...

any of these systems would need to be shipped and collected in orbit and then assembled together.

a very megalomaniac endeavor indeed.