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I haven’t read the article, but know a little bit. This is a thing only a person that thinks space is magic would think is a good idea. The big reason is heat. More specifically how to get rid of it. Our more realistic and earthbound data centers primarily use electricity to power cooling. How do you get rid of the heat in space? There’s nothing to transfer the heat to.
Also, power. MFers acting like we got dilithium crystals up in here. And yeah, we probably could do Star Trek style ships if we had a way to make power in space…but we don’t, like, at ALL
Umm… We absolutely do, solar panels. Constant full exposure to the sun adds up quick, especially when they don’t even need structural support
There’s plenty of problems with this idea, but power is the one strong point
Perhaps you should review the power that solar panels designed for space flight can draw vs the requirements of a single GPU.
We are not even close to having robust enough solar panels to make this a reality, let alone powering a datacenter full of GPUs.
This is a thing only a person that thinks space is magic would think is a good idea.
Pretty sure this is a primary basis of scientific “education”, worship of the moon/mars, etc.
It’s always been about extracting resources from rubes for worthless, profitable “goals” while actual humans suffer.
Only so much heat can be radiated away.
Anyone else feel like they are only floating this idea so that data centers in neighborhoods driving up the cost of electricity and polluting everything looks better by comparison?
They don’t need their bullshit grift to look good. They’re going to build it anyway.
Yeah, but that’s the point. It’s a boondoggle. Grifters need a bottomless hole for marks to pour money down.
i believe that cooling in space is EVEN HARDER then cooling in atmosphere. something about a near vacuum being a terrible, terrible thermal conductor
Vibrating atoms got nowhere to disperse vibrations if no other atoms present
To clarify, the article is just saying that it’s wildly unfeasible and prohibitively expensive.
They’re not saying it’s dangerous or going to harm people in some way.
I feel like some people may get the wrong idea from the headline.
You mean they didn’t mention that the laws of physics make data transfer to and from orbit an absolute PitA and that no one would sit around for that long?
It’s absolutely harmful to waste resources on worthless grifting at the expense of the planet and people suffering from very real deprivation.
That’s part of why it’s the same people promoting both the grift and the deprivation.
Sure, but that’s not what the article is saying, to be clear.
