Re:Ask HN: Are orbital data centers possible / a good idea?
by pants2 on Saturday June 06, 2026 @12:33PM
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Wouldn't space data centers be a magnitudes larger environmental issue when they eventually come back to earth and turn into GPU dust in the atmosphere?
A small Starlink satellite burning up once in a while won't destroy the environment, but a multi-gigawatt space datacenter vaporizing in the atmosphere is probably a very bad idea.
A small Starlink satellite burning up once in a while won't destroy the environment, but a multi-gigawatt space datacenter vaporizing in the atmosphere is probably a very bad idea.