Comment by GMoromisato

Comment by GMoromisato 3 days ago

5 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.

kiba 3 days ago

Land cost will also start to matter, but probably not at the scale that Starlink is doing. Regardless, orbitals are real estate.

morshu9001 2 days ago

Comparable in cost or capacity? Small datacenter is maybe around 20MW of compute.

nish__ 3 days ago

What a ridiculous waste of money.

  • amitav1 3 days ago

    What? Starlink made $72,000,000 in net profit last year. How is that a waste of money?

    • nish__ 3 days ago

      Where are you getting those numbers? SpaceX is a private company.