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After Texas’ blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX? “Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now.” (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

To run one rack of GPUs they will be about 100 square meters of solar panels and 30 square meters of radiators. That's about 130 kilowatts of compute power. To get a gigawatt multiply that by 6,000. Musk is claiming he wants to send terawatts up to there.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    The stats you listed are close to what 1 satellite would be if memory serves.

    But when he talks about sending terrawatts up there, he's talking about having a moon base manufacturing them and launching them into orbit with a mass acceleator, so if we're doing that... ramping up some solar/radiator manufacturing capacity isn't as far fetched. Were fully into sci-fi land at that point.

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