> Tesla's inability to produce solar panels is why I'm most skeptical of the whole terafab datacentre in space stuff.
replyI'm split on the datacenter-in-space stuff. I don't know whether I should disbelieve it because there is, obviously, no good way to evacuate heat in space, or because Musk talked about it, and he has an uncanny track record of not upholding his promises.
You are mixing up Tesla and SpaceX. SpaceX already produces solar panels for the 10,000+ satellites it has in space.
reply> SpaceX already produces solar panels for the 10,000+ satellites it has in space
replyNo they don't, they procure them from Taiwan Solar Energy Corp. They do not produce or manufacture their own cells, they're using off the shelf components.
Cells != panels. And why do you think there would be any issue scaling up what they have done for already the largest constellation by a large margin?
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