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.
Kessler syndrome goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Free advice: The economics don’t work out.
Isn’t it incredibly difficult to shed heat in space since the only real way to move heat is radiation?
There are some various ways. Radiators can be large and thin, and as long as the heat-sensitive part of the thing is kept cool it doesn’t really matter how hot the rest of it gets.
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.
Come on now, people can’t actually be humoring this fever dream, can they? It’s just so fucking stupid…
News headline in the future: “Orbital Data Center Crashes Into Los Angeles in a Mass Casualty Event”
Isn’t this how Skynet started?
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.
FUCK OFF Thank you
