100-TW orbital compute — reality check

    BreaksExceeds demonstrated-tech envelope

    Binding constraint: Cooling (radiator area)

    Stefan–Boltzmann radiation alone requires 132936.8 million m² of radiator. This exceeds any plausible on-orbit structure.

    Radiator area

    132936.8 M m²

    Dry mass

    1955.9 Gt

    Program cost

    $80532.34T

    Educational and illustrative only. Not investment, financial, engineering, medical, or safety advice, and not a prediction. Outputs are physics approximations and scenario estimates that depend entirely on user assumptions and public-source constants as of June 2026. Speculative scenarios are labelled as such. This tool does not assert that any objective is achievable or unachievable; it shows what a given objective would require under stated assumptions and which constraint binds first.

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