Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoRaditors. Starlink v3 can in theory already shed 20Kw of heat. But they would need to figure out how to 5x that and keep things profitable.
wewbull@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
It would be 20kW for each rack or two. The types of data centre deal they talk about these days are measured in GW of compute. That’s 50,000x just for 1GW.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
These aren’t big things, they’re small satellites. They’re going to be ~100kW