@NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
Post #594067
2026-03-02 04:16 UTC
They aren’t making a datacenter like on earth. They’re putting up a ton of satellites that will each generate about 100kW.
Everyone keeps thinking they’re putting these massive things up there, they are not doing that.
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@brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2026-03-02 04:26
That’s interesting, but what’s the point? If it’s like 2 DGX boxes in each satellite, spaced out, the interconnect between them is going to be very slow, and the individual computational power of each satellite will not be that impressive. And if you connect them all in one constructed mesh and wire them together, well, you’ve made a 200MW datacenter! The economies remain the same. If hardware gets more power efficient, well… Then why do you need to go to space anymore?