This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Getting rid of the heat is going to be an issue for that... along with the massive pollution from the many launches required to get this in orbit.
The heat will just dissipate in the air, and they can launch it at night when it's colder. Science!
/s in case, there are a few mouth breathers out today
They could build them so that they stay in perpetual dawn or dusk. One edge with the solar panels in the su, the other edge with the cooling fins in the night’s cool breeze.
Geostationary orbit is far higher than low earth orbit and I would assume following earths twilight zone would not be much better. I do not see why you would either, with reaction wheels you could orient the satellites towards the sun regardless of the relative position of the earth, with the caveat that earth may block the sun which is hard to avoid entirely anyways.
Also, there is not that much cool breeze in space, famously known for not having vast amounts of air (still have IR-radiation to help though).
Edit: Probably ate the onion, didn't I?
Free advice: The economics don't work out.
We just need to invent space construction, cheap fusion power, autonomous robotics, improve AI and set up astroid mining first, then it'll be a snap.
Honestly, it's hard to figure out what the first step in that chain is. If you want to start up industry in space, great, there are lot of potential benefits to that. But where do you start?
Within the next 50 years I do expect a broad sector of space industry to emerge, but I really can't predict what the first opportunities might be. Still, we can poke fun at it all we want right now, but I suspect a great many people will be working in space 50 years from now.
Me too. I'll even make them full AI.
Please send me $2 billion by Tuesday. My salary as yetAnotherUser CEO & CTO is a modest 20 million/year. Results are expected to appear by 2030.
Hey Gemini, make me a business plan, a marketing site and some presentations with fancy graphs.
Hey hey, I'll make them on Mars! Send the cash to me instead!
I'll do it right here on earth for only 75% of the cost. Think of how much you'll save versus mars.
But where's the vision? Is it even AI managed?
Stare into my asshole to find out.
Data centers in the ocean didn't work out. This doesn't seem smarter
The Chinese have done it apparently.
I didn't realize there was a paywall, I use the bypass paywalls clean extension.
Wasn't the Mocrosoft test run very successful?
What should that babble even mean?
In a data center, you have 4 main problems:
Being in orbit helps with exactly none of that. For example, the heat: In orbit, there is no air or water which would work as a cooling medium, but just a vacuum which cools almost nothing. It is like a vacuum flask. Get your smart phone when running hot in such a vacuum flask and tell me how it worked....
So what is the purpose of all that bullshit??
Imagine getting sent up because a pos rj45 cable got hit by a micrometeorite
Because they swore the server was powered on...
Back when the capacitor plague hit I had to manage locating & replacing over 500 motherboards in the datacenter of my then-employer. Imagine if a hardware glitch like that happened in one of these.
I had some of these bad capacitors blow in my video card, back in the day. I was extremely proud of myself for managing to order some replacement capacitors and soldering them in myself.
The most impressive part might be that I ordered the right items. I knew nothing about electronics repair at the time, I just wanted to be able to play World of Warcraft again.
In before someone wants to reboot a server and the hypervisor is unresponsive.
Isn’t it incredibly difficult to shed heat in space since the only real way to move heat is radiation?
In the (fiction) novel Artemis by Andy Weir, which takes place in a city on the moon, they have a heat management system that seemed pretty cool. They convert heat to light, and radiate the light out into space. Not sure how feasible/scalable that is, but I thought the concept was cool.
If they can turn it into light why not turn it into energy to be used?
Yeah me too! Give me money.
Welp, that's a fuckin stupid idea. Next!
The only thing better than grifting is grifting on an astronomical scale.
Come on now, people can't actually be humoring this fever dream, can they? It's just so fucking stupid...
Isn’t this how Skynet started?
No, it started when a scriptwriter came up with an idea for a movie that would sell a lot of tickets.
News headline in the future: "Orbital Data Center Crashes Into Los Angeles in a Mass Casualty Event"
Why not on mars? It's even farther away and too cold anyway.
Even if this was an economically sound proposal, the next X45 magnitude solar flare might be a nasty surprise for reliability metrics...
Edit: at some point, this would also likely contribute to Kessler Syndrome, but at least we'd have chat bots.
Now Elon can have his own death star!
