A typical AI-focused data centre can consume as much electricity as 100,000 homes. Now companies want to put them in orbit, where carefully chosen satellites can see almost continuous sunlight and dump their waste heat into space through giant radiators instead of conventional cooling plants.

Near-continuous solar power makes orbital AI computing physically plausible, but radiators, launch mass, networking, radiation and debris decide whether it can scale. The post A typical AI-focused data centre can consume as much electricity as 100,000 homes. …