lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoDatacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.taranis.ieexternal-linkmessage-square190linkfedilinkarrow-up1147arrow-down15
arrow-up1142arrow-down1external-linkDatacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.taranis.ielemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square190linkfedilink
minus-squareNotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-26 days agoRaditors. Starlink v3 can in theory already shed (edit 20) kW of heat. But they would need to figure out how to 5x that and keep things profitable.
minus-squarewewbull@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoIt 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.
Raditors. Starlink v3 can in theory already shed (edit 20) kW of heat. But they would need to figure out how to 5x that and keep things profitable.
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.