• humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    First, space solar/datacenters is total uneconomic bs that was mentioned only to justify xai and spaceX merger.

    If a launch costs $1,000 per kilogram, then the cost of energy is about $135 per megawatt-hour

    this is only the launch cost premium over the actual equipment. For datacenters there is $200/mwh premium for the equipment. Beamed solar energy, I don’t recall costs, but generally requires a receiver antenna that takes the space of what terrestrial solar could generate.