Data centers in space challenge du jour

People talk conceptually about data centers in space. Let’s talk about practical parts of this plan. We start with FCC permission for space stuff. For example, Starcloud requested permission to send 88,000 bits and bobs into space and launching those bits and bobs into space is one of the company’s biggest costs.

”Starcloud is focused on launching two of the company’s new generation of 8 kW compute satellites (dubbed Starcloud-2) on rideshare flights in 2027. These will perform orbital inference tasks for customers…”

TechCrunch