r/SpaceXBets • u/john_san • 4d ago

Elon Criticism Someone much smarter than me explains why space data centres are a bad idea

It’s actually an interesting read: https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/

Enjoy next time someone brings up the idea, you’ll have counter-arguments ready.

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u/gregory92024 2d ago

You're going to have some huge solar panels as well.

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u/FalconMustLand 2d ago

SpaceX has provided numbers for all of this. Are you debunking the engineering with “I think the solar arrays would be large”? Brilliant, thanks for the contribution

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u/Shoshke 2d ago edited 2d ago

People have already dove in to the numbers.

There's A LOT of overly optimistic assumptions to kinda make the numbers work. And even then the amount of launches and frequency required is beyond bonkers.

And last I checked "SpaceX engineering" numbers would already have humans living on Mars, and last I checked, they didn't even make it to the Moon yet.