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m4rtinklast Sunday at 11:54 PM1 replyview on HN

Sure, it is impressive how much solar power Starlink currently captures, but ISS actually does not get that much - as far as I can tell its about 250 kW maximum even with the new roll-out solar arrays that have been installed quite recently.

So about 2.5 MW of solar potential ? That's indeed quite impressive, but for serious compute a lot of energy needs cooling will eat into that.


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GMoromisatolast Monday at 4:12 AM

Cooling won’t use much energy because it’s mostly radiators and probably some recirculating pumps.

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