Engineer Explains Why Building Data Centers in Space Is So Hard | WSJ Pro Perfected

• Data centers are expensive and complicated. They take vast amounts of water, electricity, and land. But what if we didn't have to build data centers on land at all. What if we could build them in space.That's exactly what companies like Blue Origin and SpaceX are attempting to do. In fact, earlier this year, SpaceX filed an application with the FCC asking to launch a cluster of up to a million satellites to build an orbital data center. That's part of their pitch to investors ahead of their anticipated IP ...