<div dir="auto">Here is an interesting article about DC in space to mitigate power consumption. <div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/english.elpais.com/science-tech/2022-12-28/data-centers-move-into-space-to-mitigate-power-consumption-and-pollution.html%3foutputType=amp">https://www.google.com/amp/s/english.elpais.com/science-tech/2022-12-28/data-centers-move-into-space-to-mitigate-power-consumption-and-pollution.html%3foutputType=amp</a><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hesham</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 19, 2023, 8:06 PM Toerless Eckert <<a href="mailto:tte@cs.fau.de">tte@cs.fau.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I am looking forward to "Space Cowboys 2 - Data Center Edition"<br>
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On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 09:16:38PM -0400, Vint Cerf wrote:<br>
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> On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 9:13 PM Tom Evslin via Starlink <<br>
> <a href="mailto:starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > I think space-based data centers will be the rule rather than the<br>
> > exception. Wrote about that a couple of years ago although, as usual,<br>
> > things have not happened as quickly as I predicted<br>
> > <a href="https://blog.tomevslin.com/2021/07/computing-clouds-in-orbit-a-possible-roadmap.html" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://blog.tomevslin.com/2021/07/computing-clouds-in-orbit-a-possible-roadmap.html</a><br>
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> > Michael Richardson via Starlink<br>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2023 7:35 PM<br>
> > To: starlink <<a href="mailto:starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>>; <a href="mailto:e-impact@ietf.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">e-impact@ietf.org</a><br>
> > Subject: [Starlink] DataCenters in Space (was Re: fiber IXPs in space)<br>
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> > I saw this reported in BIS-Spaceflight.<br>
> > (I'm usually a few months behind in reading it) I like the "first<br>
> > objective"!<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > <a href="https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/space/press-release/ascend-thales-alenia-space-lead-european-feasibility-study-data" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/space/press-release/ascend-thales-alenia-space-lead-european-feasibility-study-data</a><br>
> ><br>
> > Cannes, November 14, 2022 – Thales Alenia Space, the joint company between<br>
> > Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has been chosen by the European Commission<br>
> > to lead the ASCEND (Advanced Space Cloud for European Net zero emission and<br>
> > Data sovereignty) feasibility study for data centers in orbit, as part of<br>
> > Europe’s vast Horizon Europe research program.<br>
> ><br>
> > Digital technology’s expanding environmental footprint is becoming a major<br>
> > challenge: the burgeoning need for digitalization means that data centers<br>
> > in Europe and around the world are growing at an exponential pace, which in<br>
> > turn has a critical energy and environmental impact.<br>
> ><br>
> > The first objective of this study will be to assess if the carbon<br>
> > emissions from the production and launch of these space infrastructures<br>
> > will be significantly lower than the emissions generated by ground-based<br>
> > data centers, therefore contributing to the achievement of global carbon<br>
> > neutrality. The second objective will be to prove that it is possible to<br>
> > develop the required launch solution and to ensure the deployment and<br>
> > operability of these spaceborne data centers using robotic assistance<br>
> > technologies currently being developed in Europe, such as the EROSS IOD<br>
> > demonstrator.<br>
> ><br>
> > This project is expected to demonstrate to which extent space-based data<br>
> > centers would limit the energy and environmental impact of their ground<br>
> > counterparts, thus allowing major investments within the scope of Europe’s<br>
> > Green Deal, possibly justifying the development of a more climate-friendly,<br>
> > reusable heavy launch vehicle. Europe could thus regain its leadership in<br>
> > space transport and space logistics, as well as the assembly and operations<br>
> > of large infrastructures in orbit.<br>
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