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Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue (tech.yahoo.com)
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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You'd have to constantly adjust its orbit. Something that huge with massive radiators and solar panels is going to get a lot of drag.

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

1000km is still considered LEO and would take hundreds of years to decay. At this distance, you’d add 3ms of latency, which isn’t nothing but acceptable for most applications.