Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers
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Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers
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#3As an expert in this field, I can assure that cost is not the most important factor. Demand is.
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#4I guess I'd assume that the premise driving this would be that there will eventually be enough business in space that it's necessary for space-centric use, and that terrestrial use is just a fringe benefit or loss leader or something.
But oddly this doesn't seem to be how the concept is typically framed.
My second level curiosity is how much cheaper/competitive it'd be if we had space elevators.
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#5I suspect that this orbital data centers isn't entirely about dollars (No doubt dollars are important).
I suspect it is about the regulatory environment. The regulatory environment on data centers is moving quickly. Data centers used to be considered a small portion of the economy and thus benign and not worth extorting/controlling. This seems to be changing, rapidly.
Given that data centers only exchange information with their consumers they are a natural candidate for using orbit as a way to escape regulators.
Further, people are likely betting that regulators will take considerable time to adjust since space is multinational.
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#6As an expert in this field, I can assure that cost is not the most important factor. Demand is.
Demand for what? A sealab like head in the sand view of lack of data regulation requirements?
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#7As an expert in this field, I can assure that cost is not the most important factor. Demand is.
Demand for what? A sealab like head in the sand view of lack of data regulation requirements?
specific software applications you can run in space that you can't run on Earth or can't run cheaper on Earth.
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#8I suspect that this orbital data centers isn't entirely about dollars (No doubt dollars are important). I suspect it is about the regulatory environment. The regulatory environment on data centers is moving quickly. Data centers used to be considered a small portion of the economy and thus benign and not worth extorting/controlling. This seems to be changing, rapidly. Given that data centers only exchange information…
How on earth does that justify the astronomic expense difference?
Re: Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers
#9I suspect that this orbital data centers isn't entirely about dollars (No doubt dollars are important). I suspect it is about the regulatory environment. The regulatory environment on data centers is moving quickly. Data centers used to be considered a small portion of the economy and thus benign and not worth extorting/controlling. This seems to be changing, rapidly. Given that data centers only exchange information…
True, but businesses don't care about regulations except where it costs them money. Also, remember that time is money, so any regulatory delays cost real money to a business.
My point is that you can actually reduce it all to dollars. And I believe that the cost of orbital data centers will come down due to technological advances, while the cost of regulation will only go up, because of local and global opposition.