I've been hearing a lot of talk about using satellites for data processing lately. The benefit is better energy generation as I have understood it. But isn't there a problem in that satelites are bad at expelling excess heat, since they can only do so passively?

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[–] 5 points 4 weeks ago*

It's an idea used to justify merging xAI (burning through cash) and SpaceX (more profitable*). It's not remotely practical due to heat dissipation, general complexity, additional cost, and complete inability to service broken components.

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