[samtp]

> Setting up data centers in orbit

Still have yet to hear how data centers in space are actually supposed to be a good thing when cooling them is much harder than on earth because they are in a near vacuum with much less heat dissipation.

> Setting up facilities to beam down energy to earths surface could also be an opportunity

Also interested to learn how this is done without creating a death ray with potentially catastrophic consequences

So if all the current telcos in the US lose all of their customers and SpaceX captures 100% of them without degrading the current margin/pricing at all, they are 5% of their way to the $4.3t goal. And the only way I can see that happening is from government mandate - which if things don't change I guess never say never. But still a very very very long way off

[orwin]

SpaceX published their datacenter satellite plans, I think they assumed that if they hid their radiators from the sun, they can consider space temperature to be 3-5K. Which is a fairly good assumption if:

- you have a perfect shadow on all side (no light is reflected from a nearby celestial body)

- and nothing is radiating nearby. Earth radiate a lot, I space temperature around the iss is fairly high.

I'm fairly sure the current design either need high temp chips or needs to be far from LEO. Or they will have to make the radiators bigger.