if I may add, you can't really launch a station three times the size of ISS with a single rocket so there will be multiple launches. Just the launch costs alone could likely finance multiple similarly sized server rooms on land.
It should be smaller than ISS. IIRC, ISS has three solar arrays and two radiators. DGX is about the size of a fridge. Let’s add two more fridges worth of infra for solar and radiator. Maybe another fridge for comms. But these three fridges replace all the modules of ISS. It’s still gonna be about 6 (maybe up to 10?) tons of mass to lift. But Starship can do 100-150 tons to LEO so might be doable.
What is the power budget for that DGX. The power budget for ISS is 75–90 kW. If your DGX fridge needs more power, it will need similar capacity of solar and radiators.
> In 2027, the unified approach will almost certainly be taken to new levels as NVIDIA's “Kyber” system will launch, with 576 GPUs in a single rack requiring a whopping 600 kW, equivalent to delivering enough power for 500 US homes into the space of a filing cabinet.
That fridge needs 600 kW of power. That will require 6x more solar panel space than the ISS and 6x more radiators. It's not about the volume of the object but rather its power and heat budgets.
If that fridge can reject all of the heat from the rack in space, it will work much better on earth and all the data centers would be using that fridge instead of their cooling towers and AC.
pointlessone|25 days ago
shagie|24 days ago
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> In 2027, the unified approach will almost certainly be taken to new levels as NVIDIA's “Kyber” system will launch, with 576 GPUs in a single rack requiring a whopping 600 kW, equivalent to delivering enough power for 500 US homes into the space of a filing cabinet.
That fridge needs 600 kW of power. That will require 6x more solar panel space than the ISS and 6x more radiators. It's not about the volume of the object but rather its power and heat budgets.
If that fridge can reject all of the heat from the rack in space, it will work much better on earth and all the data centers would be using that fridge instead of their cooling towers and AC.