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You don't have to deal with things like weather or physical degradation.

and the only cost in return is that it's extraordinarily expensive to get it there, to maintain it, and you don't have a way of cooling it easily.

Also, the satellites need to talk to each other in an extremely complex format, and this assumes a variety of other things all go perfectly.

Right, you have to assume the chips are going to basically maintain themselves without any sort of guidance or oversight.

But so here, okay, here's the counter.

As much as this sounds like a crazy Elon thing, Google actually announced a plan to do this in November.

So this is like not sort of, it's not just Elon's wacky idea.

This started in November.

They call it Project Suncatcher.

And they've described it as a, you know, in quotes moonshot and give it a 10 year timeline of like, we think that in 10 years, it'll be cheaper by the mid 2030s to start new data centers.

Like launching and operating a data center would become the same price as doing it on earth.

That's their pitch.

And they're like, we're going to see if this is even possible.

And they're going to start to test it.

And then Elon went on this podcast like a week or two ago and had a pint of beer and then said in 36 months, it'll be cheaper to do it in space.

So it's going to be somewhere in those general timelines.

Yeah, so they're going to start testing stuff in 2027.

They're going to partner with Planet, who is another aerospace company that does satellite imagery.

So they're going to work together to try to solve these issues.

And they're being very upfront of like, this is extremely technically challenging.