Starcloud: research for orbital space data centers.

"Starcloud plans to build a 5-gigawatt orbital data center with super-large solar and cooling panels approximately 4 kilometers in width and length. (Image credit: Starcloud)"(Space.com, Powerful NVIDIA chip launching to orbit next month to pave way for space-based data centers)

Data satellites mean orbital platforms. That involves computers. And those satellites share their processor capacity with other computers. Those orbital computer centers will get their energy from solar panels. The data center can be based on a modular or cloud-based architecture. The fact is that a single computer module does not require large rockets. Those AI-driven systems can make it possible. For those systems that can automatically dock with each other. Or they can start to communicate. With each other using wireless technology. 

Orbital data centers are one possible answer. To the data centers’ energy problems. Those data centers are made using satellites. That docked into one entirety. Or. Another solution can be a network-based architecture, where the data-satellites communicate with each other, using laser or coherent radiowave-based communication. In those systems, data security requires systems that can communicate with methods. That allows for protecting data transmission from outsiders. Another problem for those systems is that they are targets for ground-based anti-satellite systems. 

The size of those systems will be far bigger than anything else. The size of those data centers will be enormous. The size of a 5 GW data center will be enormous. They will need 4 square kilometers of solar panels. 

The fact is that those data centers can also be used to control probes, other satellites, and for many other purposes. The data station can exchange data between ground stations. They can exchange data. Also with aircraft and other aerial and sea-based platforms. Airship-based platforms can use the air turbines for energy production.

There are also ideas introduced about the airship- or sea-based data centers. Those data centers can be dropped into the sea. And then that system can get energy from water flows. The system can have a tube that is vertically positioned. And then the water flow that travels through that tube rotates the turbine. Or the seawater can be used as a cooler for the miniature nuclear reactors. 

https://www.aerospacetestinginternational.com/features/19759.html

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/starcloud/

https://parametric-architecture.com/starclouds-space-data-centers/?srsltid=AfmBOopv0ggVah1ozx-yzEXz3cS6hJMmWciaYxYiAiZ_V4_IW7WmF0Cn

https://www.space.com/technology/nvidia-gpu-heads-to-space-starcloud-1

https://www.starcloud.com/