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		dantillberg 23 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Data centers in space makes no sense Not 24/7 in low earth orbit, but perhaps at an earth-moon or earth-sun L4/L5 lagrange point. Though with higher latency to earth.

BurningFrog 13 hours ago [–]

There are Sun-Synchronous Orbits, and those are what SpaceX plans to use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-synchronous_orbit

dantillberg 12 hours ago | [–]

Well, that's neat. TIL. Thanks for the link!

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