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Report: Google and SpaceX in talks to put data centers into orbit
(techcrunch.com)
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this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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Radiative IR cooling is still orders of magnitude less efficient than convective cooling. There is precisely zero percent chance that orbital data centers will be less expensive than terrestrial ones.