BEZOS AND MUSK RACE TO BRING DATA CENTERS TO SPACE

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Companies like SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Google are racing to figure out the viability of orbital data centers. Operating data centers in space will require overcoming several technical issues, including managing temperatures for hardware, protecting that hardware from radiation, and transferring data back to Earth without long lag times. Skeptics say that space-based data centers won't be competitive on cost. It may take tens of thousands of satellites to recreate the compute capacity of a gigawatt data center in space.