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[Scott Manley] Does It Make Sense To Put Data Centers In Space? Can They Really Cost Less To Operate? (www.youtube.com)

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TL;DW:

Does It Make Sense To Put Data Centers In Space?

At some point in the future, yes.

Can They Really Cost Less To Operate?

In theory, yes.

Scott expresses concerns that current startups have not adequately addressed some of the practical challenges, such as cooling.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Interesting video. The increase of efficiency of solar panels and the constant sunlight gives them like 100 million in cost savings over 10 years for a 5GW center. Pretty impressive.

It would also be cool to buy storage space for fileservers or seed boxes in space. Probably not very practical but cool haha. Would also not work well with sun-synchronous orbit.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

If by "gives them" you mean in their completely bogus calculation then yes.