"It really seems like anyone with some renders and a white paper written by someone being gassed up by an overly agreeable AI can get VC funding these days."
These dishes only need a radiator < 2 times the size of the ISS radiators if they were using the radiators on the ISS. They’re only 125kw avg, 150kw peak and the ISS radiators are rated 84kw.
I’m sure there’s been advancements in radiating heat efficiently in space as well.
Cumulatively it’ll be a lot, but the solar panels will be even more. They’re way bigger than the radiators.
Apparently for an average data center youd need bewtwen 100,000 to 500,000 meters squared of radiator area
These dishes only need a radiator < 2 times the size of the ISS radiators if they were using the radiators on the ISS. They’re only 125kw avg, 150kw peak and the ISS radiators are rated 84kw.
I’m sure there’s been advancements in radiating heat efficiently in space as well.
Cumulatively it’ll be a lot, but the solar panels will be even more. They’re way bigger than the radiators.
A dara center is more than 100Kw.
You’re right, its going to be 10s of thousands of these smaller 125kW avg dishes, but they only need to solve the problem at the scale of 150kw peak.