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by adflux 1952 days ago
Dyson sphere you mean? We are centuries away from achieving anything like that...
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A Dyson cloud is a similar mega structure but not a continuous surface. I think it is more commonly referred to as a Dyson swarm. Isaac Arthur [0] had an episode about it in which he mentioned such a structure to be quite feasible with modern day technology.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g

He means a Dyson swarm and we are not centuries away from achieving this. The economical sense is on a different paper. Having ASIC miners in space connecting to something like Starlink is entirely possible even though not cost effective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere#Dyson_swarm
Go ahead and do the math on how long it would take to launch enough bots to match current energy spend on earth.