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From: Hesham ElBakoury <helbakoury@gmail.com>
To: J Pan <Pan@uvic.ca>
Cc: Dave Taht via Starlink <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net>,
	Nitinder Mohan <n.mohan@tudelft.nl>
Subject: [Starlink] Re: Data centers are racing to space — and regulation can’t keep up
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:01:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFvDQ9oFXoPATo_zCypp9yDqMGKB+M_YphLGUs3y1uHO7eaWLw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHn=e4i1iJRfrVhyazV7nCajZvSnCiWUPjdkQ36A+0abSL=cmw@mail.gmail.com>

Great. Thanks J.
Please let us know when the report will be available.

Hesham

On Wed, Feb 25, 2026, 9:54 PM J Pan <Pan@uvic.ca> wrote:

> Hi Hesham: thanks for the interest and we are still working on
> it---will be announced here i believe when it is available. cheers.
> -j
> --
> J Pan, UVic CSc, ECS566, 250-472-5796 (NO VM), Pan@UVic.CA,
> Web.UVic.CA/~pan
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 8:50 PM Hesham ElBakoury <helbakoury@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi J,
> > Please send me the report of this dagstuhl seminar
> >
> > Thanks
> > Hesham
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2026, 8:29 PM J Pan <Pan@uvic.ca> wrote:
> >>
> >> nice discussion and an insightful article too. also a position slide
> >> for a panel on the connected space use cases at the recent dagstuhl
> >> seminar---some food for thought as well. cheers.  -j
> >> --
> >> J Pan, UVic CSc, ECS566, 250-472-5796 (NO VM), Pan@UVic.CA,
> Web.UVic.CA/~pan
> >>
> >> On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 6:43 AM Hesham ElBakoury via Starlink
> >> <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > This article says it is horrible idea:
> >> >
> https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/
> >> >
> >> > Hesham
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2026, 6:30 AM David Collier-Brown via Starlink <
> >> > starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > I looked at the radiative cooling problem, and immediately thought
> ...
> >> > > "these things can't possibly work. What is the hidden agenda here?"
> >> > >
> >> > > Anyone know of alternative reasons for this project? It's from Mr
> Musk,
> >> > > so weird is quite possible.
> >> > >
> >> > > --dave
> >> > >
> >> > > On 2/25/26 09:05, Hesham ElBakoury via Starlink wrote:
> >> > > >
> >> > >
> https://restofworld.org/2026/orbital-data-centers-ai-sovereignty/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter
> >> > > >
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Hesham
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> >> > > --
> >> > > David Collier-Brown,         | Always do right. This will gratify
> >> > > System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest
> >> > > davecb@spamcop.net           |              -- Mark Twain
> >> > >
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  reply	other threads:[~2026-02-26  6:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-25 14:05 [Starlink] Data centers are racing to space — and regulation can’t keep up Hesham ElBakoury
2026-02-25 14:30 ` [Starlink] " David Collier-Brown
2026-02-25 14:32   ` [Starlink] Re: Data centers are racing to space ??? and regulation can???t " Gert Doering
2026-02-25 14:42   ` [Starlink] Re: Data centers are racing to space — and regulation can’t " Hesham ElBakoury
2026-02-26  4:28     ` J Pan
     [not found]       ` <CAFvDQ9p68AFJ5cQTpyx=HkA2Cf6r1m6F3ssaJh-OJK4kqK=PDQ@mail.gmail.com>
2026-02-26  5:54         ` J Pan
2026-02-26  6:01           ` Hesham ElBakoury [this message]
2026-02-25 14:50   ` Daniel AJ Sokolov
2026-02-26  1:33     ` David Lang
2026-02-26  2:38       ` Nick Matthews
2026-02-26  4:39         ` David Lang
2026-02-26 11:54           ` Mark Handley
2026-02-26 13:36             ` Vint Cerf
2026-02-26 13:56               ` Nitinder Mohan
2026-02-26 21:36                 ` Ulrich Speidel
2026-02-26 23:02                   ` Brandon Butterworth
2026-02-26 23:16                     ` Nitinder Mohan
2026-02-26 23:44                       ` Ulrich Speidel
2026-02-27  1:01                         ` Joe Hamelin
2026-02-27  1:47                           ` David Lang
2026-02-27 14:26                             ` [Starlink] Why Data Centers In Space Won't Work [Yet] (A non-canonical list) Sascha Meinrath
2026-02-27 15:07                               ` [Starlink] " David Lang
2026-02-27 15:15                               ` Daniel AJ Sokolov
2026-02-27 15:22                                 ` Gert Doering
2026-02-26 14:14               ` [Starlink] Re: Data centers are racing to space — and regulation can’t keep up Mark Handley
2026-02-26 18:01             ` David Lang
2026-02-25 20:26   ` Brandon Butterworth
2026-02-26  1:28   ` David Lang
2026-02-26  4:49 ` David Lang

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