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bvcpyesterday at 9:53 AM4 repliesview on HN

tell me again why ai datacenters in space make no sense


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delectiyesterday at 12:50 PM

Cosmic rays, launch costs, relative impossibility of maintenance, difficulty of heat dispersal, added latency, interconnect interference, no way to recycle when decommissioning.

Or we could build a power line.

Tangurena2yesterday at 12:41 PM

Along with lack of cooling, the cost to launch hardware means that "servers in space" can never recover startup costs.

black6yesterday at 10:44 AM

Heat rejection.

downrightmikeyesterday at 5:47 PM

It would blot out the sky, ~30,000 acres per Gigawatt