From: Kenneth Porter <shiva@sewingwitch.com>
To: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: [Starlink] Re: How Starcloud Is Bringing Data Centers to Outer Space | NVIDIA Blog
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 08:41:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6cf9fb90-03ca-4c1d-9960-740e8819aec7@sewingwitch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHn=e4gNXjAcPU_PdY6r1QzhCk702x088eNxf5_0W-5sL+odeg@mail.gmail.com>
We've been talking about space-based solar power stations feeding cities
since the 1970s. (I was in the L5 Society in my teens then.) We thought
this would be a good excuse to mine the moon for raw materials, build
manufacturing cities in the L4 and L5 Lagrange points, and construct
gigantic orbital solar arrays that would send the energy to Earth by
microwave. (Lifting the raw material from the moon is practically free,
using electromagnetic catapults instead of the expensive rockets needed
for Earth-sourced materials.)
The modern idea of putting data centers in orbit might be an even more
practical driver to move industry into high orbit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L5_Society
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-19 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-19 15:52 [Starlink] " Hesham ElBakoury
2025-11-19 16:09 ` [Starlink] " J Pan
2025-11-19 16:34 ` Hesham ElBakoury
2025-11-19 16:54 ` J Pan
2025-11-19 16:41 ` Kenneth Porter [this message]
2025-11-19 16:42 ` Gert Doering
2025-11-19 16:58 ` J Pan
2025-11-19 18:18 ` Sebastian Moeller
2025-11-20 2:47 ` David Lang
[not found] ` <830.1763590830@obiwan.sandelman.ca>
2025-11-20 4:33 ` J Pan
[not found] <176362217876.1303.16872643449823923048@gauss>
2025-11-20 11:10 ` David Fernández
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