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none of this is 'data centres in space' in any real sense of data centres, the Chinese do not have a massive AI constellation, but there's AI happening at the edge in space (and a bunch of stuff that's sub or pre AI).
Feb 3, 2026 19:50There’s a lot of naïveté feeding expectations of that, failing to distinguish “it’s cold” from “you can quickly dissipate heat there”.
it's cold it's hot it's freaking cold it's HOT it's really cold again; but you have to deal with dissipating heat for the operating hardware of the satellite anyway. I know every millimetre and milligram of mass matters but they're extending the envelope rather than dealing with a brand new problem
can you get infinite power and cooling nope, but you can do a bit more engineering than we've had to do so far
I agree. It’ll happen, Neuromancer told me!
