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?

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    No, they are not. Putting a data center in space is a completely ridiculous idea. You can probably build and run hundreds of data centers on earth for the price of one in orbit.

    I’d really like to know who put this utter nonsense idea in circulation. Wouldn’t be surprized if it was Elons idea…