Mike Reeves-McMillan

Very nearly mentioned in comment #9, but not quite: orbital datacentres.

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Very nearly mentioned in comment #9, but not quite: orbital datacentres. Lots of free solar power, and you could potentially even manufacture the chips in orbit.

There would be some transmission lag because of lightspeed limitations, so you would probably use it for big number-crunching primarily.

Originally shared by Winchell Chung

Charles Stross Trigger Warning

Speculations of other uses for the monstrous payload capacity of SpaceX’s proposed booster.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/09/what-else-can-you-do-with-a-bi.html

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3 responses to “Very nearly mentioned in comment #9, but not quite: orbital datacentres.”

  1. Gilmoure deTrimar Avatar
    Gilmoure deTrimar

    Cooling can be an issue. Facilities and cooling equipment cost as much or more than servers, in our supercomputer systems.

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  2. Mike Reeves-McMillan Avatar
    Mike Reeves-McMillan

    I imagine, too, that the cooling issues would be rather different in space. Especially if you didn’t pressurise the facility.

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  3. Gilmoure deTrimar Avatar
    Gilmoure deTrimar

    There has to be something published about some these probes sent to Venus and Mercury, concerning cooling of their systems. Hmm…

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