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A million satellites he says. That's 100 satellites per starship launch. 5 times per day, every day, for five years. By the time you're done, the first ones are burned out and you have to do it all again. And that's assuming one GPU per satellite because solar panels even in space can't pull enough power to feed multiple of those hungry things.
Energy is the least of their concerns, getting rid of the heat is a much bigger problem.
Radiators in space are a proven tech. In practice that just means more expensive to build and launch.
Yeah it is a proven tech but requires quite a lot of space/weight and usually when satellites get the most energy from solar panels they also "generate" the most heat.