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DATA CENTERS IN SPACE MAKES NO SENSE

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Data centers in space face massive challenges such as radiation, cooling, latency, and launch costs. There are other fundamental issues that make them unfeasible: competing in the market would require launching hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of satellites into space, and satellites can't be upgraded at scale. Data centers in space only make sense if they are cost-effective relative to normal data centers. The idea makes less and less sense with every improvement in normal energy production.