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It's good.
On the cooling... you'd use radiators, and keep their surfaces away from direct sunlight.
How do you even cool a data centre in space? No atmosphere to conduct away the heat (radiation won’t do the job adequately). It maker about as much sense as his tunnel train nonsense or midget submarine cave rescue ie it’s the ravings of a ketamine-addled lunatic.
when did people completely give up on using their critical faculties to analyse ideas, instead relying solely on the “clout” of the unfluencer who proposed them?
unfluencer was a typo but I’m keeping it
The idea of such a thing in space has been utterly debunked as laughably ridiculous by actual engineers and scientists, it’s just another hyper loop to distract from the underlying fundamentals of an inflated belief system
Just noticed this from Ben Jordan, it’s a shitshow 😆
I don't enjoy making financial content, but the lack of mainstream media coverage about this is upsetting.If you can handle even more outrage, look up the new float and 3x multiplier rules applying to index funds and SpaceX, as there's no way I could explain that adeptly in a 3 minute reel.
— Benn Jordan (@bennjordan.bsky.social) 2026-06-17T19:27:52.903Z
How do you even cool a data centre in space? No atmosphere to conduct away the heat (radiation won’t do the job adequately). It maker about as much sense as his tunnel train nonsense or midget submarine cave rescue ie it’s the ravings of a ketamine-addled lunatic.
But space is cold...
Yes its nonsense, your radiators would need to be about 10x the size of your data centre.
There is some edge computing you could do with a swarm of Starlink satellites, assuming they only use a small amount of their onboard compute resources but its a very niche use case, its never going to replace traditional datacentres.
Its the kind of nonsense only someone who doesn't understand space, data centres or physics would come up with. Good think Musk had nothing to do with any of those...
How do you even cool a data centre in space?
Presumably with infra-red radiation in the same way (or similar at least) that ISS does. Pipe chilled water (using ammonia as it stays liquid in very cold temps) around the thing and emitting the heat as infra red through panels on the surface. I don't know how much you need, but that's 'just' a scaling/engineering problem, Shirley?
Scott Manley explains cooling data centres in space here:
Is It Really Impossible To Cool A Datacenter In Space?
its never going to replace traditional datacentres
Not for performance or cost reasons, for sure. But the one big thing here is... WHO REGULATES WHAT HAPPENS IN SPACE?
How would a government block a satellite signal? How would they access data held "above" the cloud?
The nutcases who drive these companies (and many of their investors) are the kind of libertarians for whom this is exciting.
I'm reminded of "Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B" from Hitchhikers Guide...
I'm reminded of the colony ship in Mickey 17, specifically Mark Ruffalo's character Kenneth Marshall), leading an expedition in his own image with people being de factor indentured labour for his dreams.
It's going to be the biggest rug-pull the world has ever seen. The race for your cash is on...
Just checked my bog standard workplace pension fund where everybody who saves is pushed into by default.
It is has a large allocation into an MSCI index that is supposedly screened on ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) criteria.
Top 10 holdings (%)
| Nvidia | 4.7 |
| Apple | 4.2 |
| Microsoft | 2.9 |
| Amazon.com | 2.2 |
| Alphabet A | 1.9 |
| Alphabet C | 1.6 |
| Broadcom | 1.6 |
| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co | 1.5 |
| Meta Platforms A | 1.4 |
| Tesla | 1.2 |
MSCI are going to admit SpaceX after 10 days.
