@alice_pea_3526@mastodon.social
2026-07-31 11:30 UTC
@space_environmentalism@mastodon.social If AI loves water so much, then why don't they build them underground beneath the water table, or underwater beneath lakes and oceans?
There is no water in space, and the vacuum of space functions as an ideal heat insulator. The ISS requires massive radiators about as large as it's solar panels, just to keep it's internals and crew from melting. Even the solar panels would have to be colossal to power such a space-based data center, as in multiple rugby fields of area.
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@alice_pea_3526@mastodon.social 2026-07-31 11:38
@space_environmentalism@mastodon.social In the case of a constellation of smaller AI satellites, it will be impossible. AI clusters require ultra low latency, and ultra stable interconnects, and a satellite mesh network with multiple orbits will have latency spikes as sats pass each other. Not to mention the latency being limited by the speed of light itself. Not even Starlink can save them, as the bandwidth capacity of each of these interconnects also has to be rather high, as in at least 50Gbps high.