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by amanaplanacanal 35 days ago
My gut says another obstacle is maintenance. How long can a datacenter on the ground run without maintenance? How will this be affordable in orbit?
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People already talk about that, so I wouldn't be adding much new. That said, had already put in a bit about cost of launching.

TL;DR: Alphabet researchers (and Alphabet owns more of SpaceX than the entire IPO so if anything they're biased to optimism), recon it will take SpaceX launching about 370,000 tons to orbit before they've even figured out how to get the costs down to the point it makes sense to put these in orbit.