[alangibson]

ISS radiators run on water and ammonia. Think about how much a kg costs to lift to space and you'll see the economics of space data centers fall apart real fast. Plus, if the radiator springs a leak the satellite is scrap.

[trothamel]

The point of the Starship program is to drop the cost of a kg going to space significantly - this isn't meant to be launched with rockets that aren't fully reusable.

[duped]

Even if power cost nothing the limiting factor on data center value creation is distance to where the data is requested. Putting it in space is dumb.

[rlt]

Not all AI workloads are latency sensitive.