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Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

I want you to notice how this article, which took two journalists to write, doesn't even bother to seriously explore whether the claims being made by companies are true it's genuinely just not relevant to them

Semafor@semafor.com

Building data centers in space could be cost-effective by the early 2030s. www.semafor.com/article/06/1...

semafor.comThe case for data centers in spaceBuilding data centers in space could be cost-effective by the early 2030s, analysis suggested.
Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

No, and while starlink purportedly has, that too comes with a long long line of asterisks, including sagging ARPU, high sustainability costs, tons of subsidies, and looming competitors

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King V
@mrsaver.bsky.social

The “profitability” of Starlink is only because they categorize all the launch costs under the space vertical. I doubt very much it’s actually profitable if you took into account the cost of getting the satellites into orbit