lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoDatacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.taranis.ieexternal-linkmessage-square214linkfedilinkarrow-up1552arrow-down110
arrow-up1542arrow-down1external-linkDatacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.taranis.ielemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square214linkfedilink
minus-squareNotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-220 hours agoRaditors. Starlink v3 can in theory already shed (edit 20) kW of heat. But they would need to figure out how to 5x that and keep things profitable.
minus-squarewewbull@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·14 hours agoIt would be 20kW for each rack or two. The types of data centre deal they talk about these days are measured in GW of compute. That’s 50,000x just for 1GW.
minus-squareNotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-211 hours agoThese aren’t big things, they’re small satellites. They’re going to be ~100kW. They only need to 5x the existing radiator they think will work.
Raditors. Starlink v3 can in theory already shed (edit 20) kW of heat. But they would need to figure out how to 5x that and keep things profitable.
It would be 20kW for each rack or two. The types of data centre deal they talk about these days are measured in GW of compute. That’s 50,000x just for 1GW.
These aren’t big things, they’re small satellites. They’re going to be ~100kW. They only need to 5x the existing radiator they think will work.