I’ve been hearing a lot of talk about using satellites for data processing lately. The benefit is better energy generation as I have understood it. But isn’t there a problem in that satelites are bad at expelling excess heat, since they can only do so passively?
heat dissipation on satellites is a cataclysmic showstopper, but even if it was solved, anything on a satellite has to survive launch, is nonrepairable and all of that expensive silicon burns down in a couple of years
“datacenters in space” story is a result of highly advanced reasoning: 1. musk has space launch company 2. musk has ai
companycash furnace 3. musk wants more money and 4. for what i assume are completely rational reasons and not speculation fueled by cultists, ai stocks pumped and only started crashing recentlyand before that, you’re gonna take a real hard look on whether regular ai datacenters on ground are profitable (they’re cash furnaces)