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  • phenomlabundefined

    This is certainly an interesting article I read this morning.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjewvpkw7weo

    Whilst appealing from the unlimited solar power perspective, the main issues I can see are as I’ve highlighted below

    • Do we really need more space junk? Think of all the abandoned satellites that are simply floating around in space because the cost of returning them is too high.
    • Any critical failure in these data centres would probably mean a very costly repair mission.
    • It takes data transmitted from earth to space around 1.5 seconds to arrive. Whilst this is not an issue for backups or longer term storage, real time applicatons and services would not work properly such as voice, video etc.

    And who mans this infrastructure?

    Fractional CISO & CTO | Founder, Principal Consultant, and Director at Phenomlab Ltd
    https://phenomlab.com

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