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Why Everyone Is Talking About Data Centers In Space
Scott Manley
Scott Manley examines why SpaceX, Google and others are looking at orbital data centers. He walks through the economics, heat rejection and solar power arguments, with links to the Lumen/Starcloud and Google Suncatcher papers.
Pointed to as a credible, engineering-informed answer to whether space data centers are feasible, from someone with deep space knowledge.
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