[alooPotato]

From the post they claim 8 times more solar energy and no need for batteries because they are continuously in the sun. Presumably at some scale and some cost/kg to orbit this starts to pencil out?

[ceejayoz]

You're trading an 8x smaller low-maintenance solid-state solar field for a massive probably high-maintenance liquid-based radiator field.

[wongarsu]

Can't be high maintenance if we just make it uncrewed, unserviceable and send any data center with catastrophically failed cooling to Point Nemo /s

[moralestapia]

No infrastructure, no need for security, no premises, no water.

I think it's a good idea, actually.

[ceejayoz]

> No infrastructure

A giant space station?

> no need for security

There will be if launch costs get low enough to make any of this feasible.

> no premises

Again… the space station?

> no water

That makes things harder, not easier.