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Re:Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea by wat10000 on Saturday November 29, 2025 @11:44PM (#46093828)
Maintenance will be impossible or at least prohibitively expensive. Which means your only opex is ground support. But it also means your capex depreciates over whatever lifetime these things will have with zero repairs or preventive maintenance.
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Re:Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea by verzali on Sunday November 30, 2025 @05:01AM (#46095353)
But ground support will not be cheap. You need to transfer a huge amount of data, which means you need to run and maintain a network of ground stations. And satellite operations are not as cheap as people like to think either.
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