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by qayxc 197 days ago
> Starlink is already a small data center! It has power, radiators, and compute!

It is not. This is like saying your phone is already a small data centre. While technically true, we're not talking about the same scale here. StarLink's compute power is a tiny fraction of a modern data centre GPU/TPU. Most of the power budget goes into communication (i.e. its purpose!).