Im pretty sure they are shielded as I think I have seen stuff like that for the electronics in the iss. Thing is that the eletronics in sattelites and the space station are pretty small relative to datacenters. The only benefit I can really see is maybe they can be solar powered which I guess if the panel acts as shielding and stays sun facing but all the extra expense of getting it up there. I just don’t see it as practical. I mean technically it should either work or not basedo on cost as long as they don’t wring out any subudies or soemthing.
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NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoThey already run AMD chips on starlink, so they’ve figured out someway to shield them in most cases. Some solar flares at bad times (something about while raising orbits) has nuked some dishes before.
HubertManne@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think everyone is really confusing what these datacenters are.
They aren’t these massive things. They’re going to be a little bigger than v3 starlinks all working together in some manner.
HubertManne@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
ugh so we are talking massive constellations. That is so much worse.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ya its going to be massive, I imagine larger than starlink if these dreams come true.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They’re shielded by being in a very low orbit. I don’t think that would work for a data center.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
These are also going to be in a low orbit so they have good latency