Why space is actually a terrible place to cool a data center
The New Stack Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
SpaceX and NVIDIA plan to launch Starmind AI1 satellites to run AI compute in Low Earth Orbit and relay results to Earth using Starlink laser links. Each satellite is described as drawing up to 250 kW at peak and needing deployable liquid radiators totaling 160 square meters. The proposal changes the cooling and networking model of AI infrastructure to reliance on slow infrared heat rejection and optical inter-satellite links, while leaving major risks from debris, space weather, and high launch-cost scaling unresolved.
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