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by yellowapple
2 days ago
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Orbital datacenters are still hypothetical, at best. In any case: >They don't need to be situated anywhere near their customers They are situated “near” their customers… assuming those customers are also Starlink customers. That's really the only remotely-decent reason (IMO) to put datacenters in orbit: to fulfill the same role for space-based customers (including satellite Internet users) that “edge” datacenters do for geographically-local customers. |
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We're about to find out just how hypothetical they are, since the valuation in the upcoming SpaceX IPO is heavily tied to that particular pipe dream.