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SpaceX's Orbital Data Center Dream Faces Harsh Realities
Elon Musk claims orbital AI data centers will be cost-effective within three years, but the math doesn't add up. Deploying a million satellites would require over 16,000 launches and decades of manufacturing at current rates. Cooling a single GPU in space already poses significant challenges, with radiators needing to be impractically large.
Meridian48 take
Musk's timeline is characteristically optimistic, but the technical and economic hurdles suggest orbital data centers remain a distant prospect, not a near-term solution.
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