| TallSilhouette said: You think data centers are driving up prices now? Wait til we have to launch all that hardware into orbit, to say nothing of cooling components in the vacuum of space with nothing to absorb the heat. |
Add to that the need for intermittent thrust to keep them from falling out of orbit, just like the ISS has to every now and then.
Putting it in space isn't feasible on any human economic, technical, or even physical scale. Cooling alone would be too much of an obstacle. The sheer scale of the required structures for cooling should shoot everyone back down to earth (where the centers will also need to stay). I don't remember the exact figures, but I think just for weight and overall size, the materials for cooling systems would outdo the actual hardware and center-structures by 10x or more.
