Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.

A former NASA engineer with space electronics expertise and Google datacenter experience explains why space-based datacenters are fundamentally flawed. The largest space solar array ever built could only power 200 GPUs versus the 100,000 planned for OpenAI's Norway datacenter, while cooling requires massive radiator panels since space's vacuum prevents air convection. Additionally, radiation destroys standard computer chips, forcing use of outdated processors with 20-year-old performance levels.