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Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. (taranis.ie)

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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The entire ISS has 14GW of cooling (and a lot of that just goes towards keeping the sun from cooking it). A single server rack can produce around 72GW of heat.

The ISS cost about $100 billion.

Basically, if you took the entire budget of Sam Altman's "Stargate" project (money that, to be clear, he does not have and will not get) and put it into space data centres you might, optimistically, put one rack in space.

Most data centres have dozens to hundreds.

You're absolutely correct, but "quite big" might be the single biggest understatement I've seen in my life.