Orbital Data Centers: Spacecraft Constraints and Economic Viability · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2604.27197/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTOrbital Data Centers: Spacecraft Constraints and Economic Viability — mentioned by root-parenthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759436urn:hackerpapers:mention:2604.27197:48759436Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:57:27 GMT<p>Data Centers in Space are a practical engineering impossibility, as well as making no economic sense. Engineering and the laws of physics get on the way. Just because Scott Manley refuses to call that out, so he can do another eight videos about it, don´t stop listening to somebody with the feet on the ground: &quot;Orbital Data Centers: Spacecraft Constraints and Economic Viability&quot; - https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27197 &quot;Hot AI in Cold Space: Thermal-Crosstalk-Aware Scheduling for Sustainable Orbital AI Clusters&quot; - https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26150 &quot;Above the Cloud: Building Data Centers in Space…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2604.27197/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.gen-ph