Worried about your datacenter carbon footprint? Why not put it orbit?
The European Commission is to carry out a feasibility study on putting datacenters into orbit as part of its wide-ranging Horizon Europe research program, and has now announced companies taking part in the project., a joint venture between European aerospace and defence companies Thales and Leonardo, announced that it has been selected by the European Commission to lead the ASCEND feasibility study, which stands for Advanced Space Cloud for European Net zero emission and Data sovereignty.
It isn't perhaps an obvious solution, but Thales Alenia Space will lead a consortium of companies examining whether datacenters can be put into orbit, powered by solar energy and use optical communications to provide a data link with facilities on the ground. According to Thales Alenia Space, the energy to power such orbital datacenters could come from solar power plants capable of generating several hundred megawatts, while the link with the ground would use high-bandwidth internet connections based on optical communications,"for which Europe has mastered the underlying technologies.
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