“An uncooled computer chip in space would overheat and melt much faster than one on Earth.”
Musk just merged SpaceX and xAI with orbital data centers as a selling point. Meanwhile, Amazon’s cloud chief calls it “just not economical.” Space is a vacuum that traps heat. Ground-based solar keeps getting cheaper. You’d need millions of satellites to compete, dramatically increasing Kessler syndrome risk. This is vaporware dressed up as visionary thinking.