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Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue (tech.yahoo.com)
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[โ€“] wuffwuffwuff@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

A 20KW data center is utterly feeble, barely worth the name, by ground-based data center standards, which easily go into tens of megawatts.

[โ€“] unit327@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 hours ago

It's a single rack rather than it being a whole data center. The whole constellation of satellites is the data center.

Again, I'm not advocating for this as a good idea, just saying that cooling is not the reason it is a bad one.