<div dir="auto">The article about the ASCEND project says:<div dir="auto">"Very low ambient temperatures in space will dramatically reduce the need for cooling equipment that consumes enormous amounts of energy. A significant part of a data center’s energy use is for cooling equipment, accounting for more than 50% in some facilities. Temperatures can be as low as -292°F (-180°C) when an orbiting object is in the Earth’s shadow."</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hesham</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 19, 2023, 10:44 PM Daniel Schien <<a href="mailto:Daniel.Schien@bristol.ac.uk">Daniel.Schien@bristol.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="auto">I assume any object in orbit will be hidden from the sun some of the time. So, the machines will require some pretty big battery to go up with them. </div>
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<div dir="auto">Tom Segert estimates in his LinkedIn post, for a<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important"> 100kg satellite payload:</span></div>
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<div dir="auto">"TL:DR ~57 ton CO2e for a typical ESA satellite (including Ariane 6 launch), <15t CO2e for a satellite built in a factory and launched with a re-usable rocket."</div>
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<div dir="auto">Depending on the type of server that should go up there, this is a fair amount of carbon to offset from brighter sunlight.</div>
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TWh (out of 30,000) in 2021 data and growing between 10-60% over 6 years in total (so let's than 10 CAGR). But it's certainly not doubling every year. That's just completely wrong.</span></div>
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I think space-based data centers will be the rule rather than the exception. Wrote about that a couple of years ago although, as usual, things have not happened as quickly as I predicted
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https://blog.tomevslin.com/2021/07/computing-clouds-in-orbit-a-possible-roadmap.html</a><br>
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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 objective"!<br>
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<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>
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Cannes, November 14, 2022 – Thales Alenia Space, the joint company between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has been chosen by the European Commission to lead the ASCEND (Advanced Space Cloud for European Net zero emission and Data sovereignty) feasibility
study for data centers in orbit, as part of Europe’s vast Horizon Europe research program.<br>
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Digital technology’s expanding environmental footprint is becoming a major<br>
challenge: the burgeoning need for digitalization means that data centers in Europe and around the world are growing at an exponential pace, which in turn has a critical energy and environmental impact.<br>
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The first objective of this study will be to assess if the carbon emissions from the production and launch of these space infrastructures will be significantly lower than the emissions generated by ground-based data centers, therefore contributing to the achievement
of global carbon neutrality. The second objective will be to prove that it is possible to develop the required launch solution and to ensure the deployment and operability of these spaceborne data centers using robotic assistance technologies currently being
developed in Europe, such as the EROSS IOD demonstrator.<br>
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This project is expected to demonstrate to which extent space-based data centers would limit the energy and environmental impact of their ground counterparts, thus allowing major investments within the scope of Europe’s Green Deal, possibly justifying the development
of a more climate-friendly, reusable heavy launch vehicle. Europe could thus regain its leadership in space transport and space logistics, as well as the assembly and operations of large infrastructures in orbit.<br>
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