[strangecasts]

> I think we should wait to see how the first satellite data centre works out. It seems fairly unlikely that it could be practical. It seems kind of nuts...

I strongly suspect that what'll happen is SpaceX does launch satellites with onboard GPUs, so the SpaceX hypemen can go "the skeptics said it couldn't be done!" and take off before the actual, more crucial question of "does it make _financial_ sense?" is answered in the extreme negative

[ben_w]

Indeed. Even optimistic estimates say SpaceX have to launch about 370,000 tons to LEO before they get the costs down low enough to be worth launching them on pure financial grounds.

I suspect Musk reaches pension age before that happens.

[chicken-stew]

I expect it to be more like servers that cache frequent content, to reduce the round trip delay.

[brookst]

Sure, but you think they’ll invest in a million of them?