Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit

• FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If only they'd hired you, they would have known.

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  • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    well any actual engineer who isn’t trying to sell them will readily tell you that a datacenter in space is a very bad idea.

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    • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They'd better not try to sell them to anyone who has access to an engineer, then. Just a single engineer will bring the whole scheme crashing down.

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      • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        and forget about running 4nm chips in space. shit has to be radiation hardened, which means bigger process nodes and higher energy cost, and lower speed

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      • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        for starters, at the loads they’re running at, they have literally hundreds of gpu failures a day. How do you propose doing that in space?

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or maybe they just want to fool lay persons, to get some of them sweet venture capital on empty promises by 2030? Ever considered that?

    You can only radiation cool in empty space, not very effective and the lay person usually doesn’t think of that. Especially not on fancy and dumbed-down presentations.

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    • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But he's so hungry. :(

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