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Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. (taranis.ie)
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[โ€“] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It would be 20kW for each rack or two. The types of data centre deal they talk about these days are measured in GW of compute. That's 50,000x just for 1GW.

[โ€“] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

These aren't big things, they're small satellites. They're going to be ~100kW. They only need to 5x the existing radiator they think will work.