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> it would be advantageous to have a bunch of smaller satellites, if you were concerned about cooling them.

...That's only relevant if you start from the position that your datacenters have to be space.

You could already make smaller datacenters on earth, and still have better cooling, if you were concerned about that. We don't do that because on earth it's more efficient to have one large datacenter than many small ones.



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