lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 个月前Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.taranis.ieexternal-linkmessage-square286linkfedilinkarrow-up1676arrow-down115cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1661arrow-down1external-linkDatacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.taranis.ielemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 个月前message-square286linkfedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareNotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-22 个月前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.
minus-squarewewbull@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 个月前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.
minus-squareNotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 个月前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.
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.