Comment by morshu9001 Comment by morshu9001 4 days ago 6 replies Copy Link View on Hacker News At what price per MW of load?
Copy Link GMoromisato 3 days ago Collapse Comment - The Starlink constellation cost $10 billion. That’s comparable to a small data center (maybe 50,000 gpus).If launch costs keep dropping and environmental costs keep rising, space based data centers will make sense. Reply View | 5 replies Copy Link kiba 3 days ago Parent Next Collapse Comment - Land cost will also start to matter, but probably not at the scale that Starlink is doing. Regardless, orbitals are real estate. Reply View | 0 replies Copy Link morshu9001 2 days ago Parent Prev Next Collapse Comment - Comparable in cost or capacity? Small datacenter is maybe around 20MW of compute. Reply View | 0 replies Copy Link nish__ 3 days ago Parent Prev Collapse Comment - What a ridiculous waste of money. Reply View | 2 replies Copy Link amitav1 3 days ago Root Parent Collapse Comment - What? Starlink made $72,000,000 in net profit last year. How is that a waste of money? Reply View | 1 reply Copy Link nish__ 3 days ago Root Parent Collapse Comment - Where are you getting those numbers? SpaceX is a private company. Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link kiba 3 days ago Parent Next Collapse Comment - Land cost will also start to matter, but probably not at the scale that Starlink is doing. Regardless, orbitals are real estate. Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link morshu9001 2 days ago Parent Prev Next Collapse Comment - Comparable in cost or capacity? Small datacenter is maybe around 20MW of compute. Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link nish__ 3 days ago Parent Prev Collapse Comment - What a ridiculous waste of money. Reply View | 2 replies Copy Link amitav1 3 days ago Root Parent Collapse Comment - What? Starlink made $72,000,000 in net profit last year. How is that a waste of money? Reply View | 1 reply Copy Link nish__ 3 days ago Root Parent Collapse Comment - Where are you getting those numbers? SpaceX is a private company. Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link amitav1 3 days ago Root Parent Collapse Comment - What? Starlink made $72,000,000 in net profit last year. How is that a waste of money? Reply View | 1 reply Copy Link nish__ 3 days ago Root Parent Collapse Comment - Where are you getting those numbers? SpaceX is a private company. Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link nish__ 3 days ago Root Parent Collapse Comment - Where are you getting those numbers? SpaceX is a private company. Reply View | 0 replies
The Starlink constellation cost $10 billion. That’s comparable to a small data center (maybe 50,000 gpus).
If launch costs keep dropping and environmental costs keep rising, space based data centers will make sense.