From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Authentication-Results: mail.toke.dk; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lang.hm; dkim=fail; arc=none (Message is not ARC signed); dmarc=none Received: from mail.lang.hm (wsip-70-167-213-146.ph.ph.cox.net [70.167.213.146]) by mail.toke.dk (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5A1F0D69615 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:33:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.2.2.53] (unknown [10.2.2.53]) by mail.lang.hm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84C1621C5CA; Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:33:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:33:53 -0700 (MST) From: David Lang To: Daniel AJ Sokolov cc: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <2o0r5r7s-0750-o2p1-7738-n4n88q9093qs@ynat.uz> References: <4f2228ec-042a-48ed-8946-a6c37f10ca94@rogers.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-ID-Hash: K5J55JOAE7EZLUJ76I2D2H3D57Z2AFQJ X-Message-ID-Hash: K5J55JOAE7EZLUJ76I2D2H3D57Z2AFQJ X-MailFrom: david@lang.hm X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; loop; banned-address; emergency; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.10 Precedence: list Subject: [Starlink] =?utf-8?q?Re=3A_Data_centers_are_racing_to_space_=E2=80=94_and_regulation_can=E2=80=99t_keep_up?= List-Id: "Starlink has bufferbloat. Bad." Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: 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