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[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

How big do you think these are going to be? A lot of people seem to have this concept of these massive things in space and that's not what it's going to be.

Starlink v3 already need to radiate 20kw of heat away, these are going to be 100kw.

They aren't huge, they are many.

Well, the heat generating datacenter part isn't anyway... the solar panels and radiators will be quite large once unfolded.

Edit: Clarity above, but also here's an image which they say is to scale.

See how small the actually data center portion is? Those solar panels are super thin and will fold up super tiny, and so will the radiator. Even if the radiator size is wrong, the main point is these things are small, and not what you should think of when you think data center. I think someone else likened the size to a server rack or two.

[–] Karmanopoly@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What if they make them a full pickup size

Well damn, those solar panels would probably be at least a dozen Eiffel towers tall then.