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siliconc0w • yesterday at 9:49 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

Even put launch cost aside and assuming the best case for starship, most of the whitepapers I've seen seem to hand-wave the weight, cost, and complexity of cooling. You need large panels with special coating, pumps, and pipes - and that will get hit with micro-meteors so you need redundancy.

Land based or even sea wave-based datacenters are all much more feasible.