From: "Brandon Butterworth" <brandon-ml@bogons.net>
To: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: [Starlink] Re: Data centers are racing to space — and regulation can’t keep up
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:02:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <em64dd91c2-0796-46a8-a268-e7b71f6f6729@bogons.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b57f34ed-7c83-4da2-a542-ee89bcf71275@auckland.ac.nz>
On 26/02/2026 21:36:51, "Ulrich Speidel via Starlink"
<starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>But when we're talking data centers, we're not talking downlinking to end users with Dishys. We're talking downlinking to other infrastructure.
And likely the same DCs they are using for the existing downlinks,
loads of space, power and connectivity for a faster link. Lots of work
ongoing on making those links optical too.
Maybe even the same DCs that are the data source for the AI sats. An
opportunity to increase dishy downlink capacity while adding AI.
brandon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-26 23:02 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
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 [this message]
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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