It’s an insane idea that Musk needed to boost SpaceX value. It’s not feasible in the near future, there are latency constraints, power constraints (both to ship the materials to space as well as run and cool them), and maintenance concerns.
And then there are the issues with space debris wrecking your data centers.
Musk is a (VERY, VERY successful) snake oil salesman.
Tesla and Twitter have both shown the emperor has no clothes, but until the rest of the world catches up, plenty of people are going to keep buying his lies.
It’s an insane idea that Musk needed to boost SpaceX value. It’s not feasible in the near future, there are latency constraints, power constraints (both to ship the materials to space as well as run and cool them), and maintenance concerns.
And then there are the issues with space debris wrecking your data centers.
Maintenance is the main one I see. Have humans ever built hardware that didn't need to be fixed from time to time?
Latency? Why, they will in LEO/MEO. Neglible.
Cooling? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_droplet_radiator
https://spectrum.ieee.org/orbital-data-centers-heat
Combine with https://spectrum.ieee.org/microfluidics-cooling-ai-chips-cor...
Solved!
Maintenance? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes !
Musk is a (VERY, VERY successful) snake oil salesman.
Tesla and Twitter have both shown the emperor has no clothes, but until the rest of the world catches up, plenty of people are going to keep buying his lies.