Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Last year I made a video on Lumen orbit's proposal to build data centers in space, now all the big players in spaceflight and AI are seriously looking at this. And while there's economic arguments that may be realized at some point in the future, there are other forces that may drive this.

Andrew McCalip's helpful tool for playing with numbers
andrewmccalip.com/space-datacenters

Google's Suncatcher paper
services.google.com/fh/files/misc/suncatcher_paper.pdf

The original Lumen (now Starcloud) paper.
starcloudinc.github.io/wp.pdf

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