Sounds like another (((grift))).
How are they going to power those orbiting data centers? They are a huge drain on the grid terrestrially so I don't see how putting them in orbit solves that problem. Cooling is easier, but it's got new sets of challenges doing it in orbit. And what about hardened silicon? There's radiation to deal with even in near-Earth-orbit. Off-the-shelf GPUs and CPUs aren't hardened to withstand space weather and you can't just send some repair tech out there with a new GPU or SSD when they fail. I think it's just another cash grab of (((investor))) money to disguise the money laundering circle jerk these (((Bog Tech))) companies are engaging in with (((AI))).
How are they going to power those orbiting data centers?
They probably won't. But you can bet they'll (((study))) it for a long time.
Cooling is easier
Cooling is actually almost non-existent. Space is a vacuum so you can't rely on convection and fans; all you have is blackbody radiation.
That's why this makes very little sense to me
You get lots of continuous solar power but your gpus are just stewing in their own heat
Those bitches are gonna need massive radiators
I'm not a physicist and I don't know how to run the numbers but I'm guessing launching radiators that big is gonna be expensive as fuck
seriously? Solar. Massive solar arrays should provide huge amounts of power.
A massive solar array on a satellite? The ISS only has about 300 kW.
Why would you think a data center constellation satellite would require more?
How dare you apply logic. Can't you see the boomers are navel gazing
Don't get me wrong - there are massive hurdles for something like this. To get a footprint large enough to compute at scale, a huge amount of satellites would be required. They would all need to be large - solar arrays for power, as was previously mentioned, and the radiator for cooling. That means the space reservation for the orbit would be massive...and i'm not sure it exists. Then add in the costs to launch them all. Much larger than the starlink clusters, the rocket would need to be re-worked for a larger payload (i think), and the fuel costs would be enormous. Lastly, they'd have to do it at a regular interval to continually replace the failing hardware as @morbro correctly points out, the toll the hardware would take out of the atmosphere would degrade things quickly.
So ... not an easy problem at all, but power isn't the limiting factor.
Oh you know, put a nuclear reactor into orbit that generates enough energy to power a plasma shield around the satellite, and make back doors in the system so that it can be hacked, dropped on one of our cities and then blamed on whoever (((they))) want to go to war with around the time that repairs on the system would cost more than building a new one.
Oh you know, put a nuclear reactor into orbit that generates enough energy to power a plasma shield around the satellite, and make back doors in the system so that it can be hacked, dropped on one of our cities and then blamed on whoever (((they))) want to go to war with around the time that repairs on the system would cost more than building a new one.
Nuclear powered orbital (((Grok))) has noticed you're being very antisatanic with your noticing.
I guess it will hack the military platforms up there and provide me with a very close encounter that I don't want.