At the start of the month, Elon Musk announced that two of his companies — SpaceX and xAI — were merging, and would jointly launch a constellation of 1 million satellites to operate as orbital data centers. Musk’s reputation might suggest otherwise, but according to experts, such a plan isn’t a complete fantasy. However, if executed at the scale suggested, some of them believe it would have devastating effects on the environment and the sustainability of low Earth Earth orbit.
Musk and others argue that putting data centers in space is practical given how much more efficient solar panels are away from Earth’s atmosphere. In space, there are no clouds
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