Eric Schmidt apparently bought Relativity Space to put data centers in orbit
arstechnica.comAt SkySat we eventually realized our satellites were going to be in orbit beyond their projected service lifetime. We started brain-storming ideas for what you could do with a satellite that may fall out of the sky any day and probably has degraded batteries and solar panels.
My suggestion was to add a jurisdiction-neutral bitcoin wallet and bittorrent peer. Maybe Eric Schmidt is thinking the same thing?
Isn't heat going to be a huge issue if one attempts to run a data center in space?
Maybe, maybe not. Radiative cooling is a thing and if you had a big enough heat sink, it shouldn't be a problem. But you're absolutely right... you can't just ignore it.