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Surely this will never pan out as every other one of Musk’s promises?
I genuinely don’t understand how they believe a data center in space is a good idea.
... esp. since they'll need to run at extremely low speeds due to the difficulty in cooling them.
I'm starting to think Musk doesn't understand that "space is cold" won't help here.
Just curious, why wouldn't it be a good idea?
Literally the only thing that works for this idea is solar energy and half the RTT because there is no need to route both up from the earth and back down. You can't maintain that, its hard to cool, its expensive to send up there, radiation not good for computers and on and on.
Fair enough
"I'm just going to the datacenter to replace a hard drive"
Kessler syndrome
https://youtu.be/d-YcVLq98Ew
Basically there aren't a lot of upsides and plenty of downsides