Comment by conception
15 hours ago
Or at least they are selling the idea of orbital data centers since the technology for orbital data centers does not exist yet or in the short term.
15 hours ago
Or at least they are selling the idea of orbital data centers since the technology for orbital data centers does not exist yet or in the short term.
It’s literally just a satellite with GPUs on it. SpaceX already has about 100MW of satellites in orbit. They’re making an upgraded version of these satellites, V3, designed for launch on Starship. Making a bigger versions of those with larger radiators (because of the duty cycle) and putting them in sun-synch is all that is required, if it can be done cheaply enough. And Starship, if it works, should be cheap enough as its propellant cost would be less than the fuel cost of using airliners to do transpacific air freight.