Building datacenters in orbit might not be the problem.
The problems are servicing them, latency, connection speed, energy consumption, and heat dissipation.
The biggest issue will be radiation. It degrades modern computer hardware pretty quickly.
I wonder how good radiation protection has become.
It seems like such a waste of time and resources, but maybe there will be some knock on effects like improving some aerospace component supply/cost/reliability.
Proponents say this represents a natural step in the evolution of moving heavy industry off the planet’s surface and a solution for the ravenous energy needs of artificial intelligence. Critics say building data centers in space is technically very challenging and cite major hurdles, such as radiating away large amounts of heat and the cost of accessing space.
Indeed, I can’t help but notice most of these companies conveniently avoid addressing the question of “how will you dissipate all that heat from your satellite?”…
The waste heat will be used to incinerate investor capital
Umbrellas obviously ⛱️
