Viral space datacenter story called clickbait: quote is about launch costs, up to 100x Earth build cost
ns123abc · x · 2026-11-02
A poster disputes a viral headline about space datacenters as clickbait, urging people to read the article itself.
The screenshot shows Google's Peterson Corio saying launch costs for orbital computing hardware are "incredibly expensive, up to 100 times more expensive than building on Earth," plus hard problems around maintaining and upgrading equipment in orbit, where staff can't simply swap machines and rewire systems as on Earth. The poster notes the quote concerns launch costs (without Starship), not a blanket rejection of the idea.
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