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Or solar in space, which some have already heard of Lumen Orbit https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lumen-orbit

Space-based solar power contains little intrinsic advantage that we can get “only from space.” It looks like a wash at best, and the astronomers would say “don’t bother.” https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/03/space-based-solar-power/

Yeah, but what I found thought provoking is what if you send the solar panels and the datacenter as well for training. No need to transmission of power down to earth. I guess then it becomes a heat dissipation and hardware upgrade and maintenance. But again, thought provoking.

Heat dissipation becomes a _huge_ problem when you deploy a data center inside a perfect insulator, the vacuum of space.

Currently about a third of the energy consumption of a data center spent on cooling (heat dissipation)? And that's with the use of a huge heat sink, the earth.

Plus, I feel like GP hasn't ever seen an actual data center. One does not simply strap on on top of a rocket (even a SpaceX Starship) and toss it into LEO.

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