[Starlink] Re: Data centers are racing to space — and regulation can’t keep up

[David Lang <david@lang.hm>]

Daniel AJ Sokolov wrote:

> Block spots in orbit

at the scale that he operates, everyone else combined in in the noise. Starlink 
is already several times the number of other satellites in orbit combined.

besides, in the long run, he's talking about launching from the moon into solar 
orbit, not earth orbit, but even if he was just talking about launching into 
earth orbit near the moon's orbit, it's not like there are very many satellites 
there to contend with.

> From a technology point of view, this is bonkers.

if you only look at technical details, you may be right, but if you add the 
regulatory burden and delays in building traditional datacenters, that may be 
enough to change the math.

Now, if we could ease the regulations so that it's easier to build power plants 
and hook up to the grid (or get small next-gen nuclear power plants operational 
so they can be dropped at the datacenters), that could change the math back.

David Lang