Simply scaling up Starlink V3 satellites, which have high speed laser links would work. SpaceX will be doing this. October 31, 2025
You can see Elon Musk's response to the original coverage above, claiming that Starlink's V3 satellites "will be doing this," and it seems to be relatively easy, too. The currently in-orbit V2 satellites cap out at a maximum data transmission rate of 100 Gbps, which the upcoming V3 satellites will increase to 1 Tbps. Through Starlink, SpaceX has already demonstrated it can deliver high-speed internet to even remote parts of the globe, so it's not entirely unprecedented that hyperscale data centers are on the world's richest person's mind. Unlike Starcloud and Rendezvous Robotics, though, we'll need more details here before speculating on what the future holds.
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Tom791 The hard part isn’t the power production, it’s the heat dissipation. Pure convection is a terrible heat transfer method. Space is bad for heat transfer because it’s empty. Reply
Zaranthos We're not quite to Star Trek replicators yet, but we're getting close. You can 3D print food and all kinds of things now. It won't be long before you can inject a subdermal implant that will use an AI language model to universally translate language. Beam me up Scotty! Reply
Zaranthos Tom791 said: The hard part isn’t the power production, it’s the heat dissipation. Pure convection is a terrible heat transfer method. Space is bad for heat transfer because it’s empty. With a good enough power source or solar I'm sure there are creative ways to do this. Aside from basic simple things like conductive materials to external radiators you could use excess heat to generate a laser beam to transfer heat to space or even more distant objects. Reply
Notton Tom791 said: The hard part isn’t the power production, it’s the heat dissipation. Pure convection is a terrible heat transfer method. Space is bad for heat transfer because it’s empty. Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_cooling With that said, radiative cooling works on earth too. That's the Yakhchal bit. Reply
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