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Starcloud can’t put a data centre in space at $8.2M in one Starship

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199 points angadh | 4 comments | 26 Jun 25 20:06 UTC | HN request time: 1.657s | source
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fsh[dead post] ◴[26 Jun 25 20:51 UTC] No.44391226[source]▶
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1. MarkusQ ◴[26 Jun 25 22:24 UTC] No.44392079[source]▶
Recently had a conversation of space based solar power pros and cons screech to a halt when someone said "Well what about space based geothermal?"
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2. Metacelsus ◴[26 Jun 25 22:55 UTC] No.44392254[source]▶
maybe on Io :)
3. Nevermark ◴[27 Jun 25 06:10 UTC] No.44394101[source]▶
What's the issue? If we can beam power down, we can beam it up!

More realistically, just drop a thermally conductive cable down to low solar orbit. Absolutely unlimited.

4. meepmorp ◴[27 Jun 25 11:41 UTC] No.44395980[source]▶
I guess from a certain perspective, all our sources of geothermal energy are already located in space