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joha4270today at 5:24 AM1 replyview on HN

Your feelings are obviously your own, but a Starlink terminal isn't that big and can transfer quite a lot of tokens.

Every single satellite has sufficient cooling for its power production, otherwise they would be frying. Waste heat from a GPU is not materially different from waste heat from an amplifier. That's not cooling entire racks, but I don't think anybody talks about putting entire racks in space anymore.

I'm very much pro nuclear, but a solar cell in a sun synchronous orbit is pretty great too and eliminates most battery requirements

I very much doubt the economics of this makes sense, but I don't think a lot of your criticism is valid.


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throw310822today at 6:44 AM

> Every single satellite has sufficient cooling for its power production

But here we're talking about putting data centers in space. It means stuffing as many gpus as possible into each satellite and running them at constant max power.

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