Comment on NVIDIA's H100 GPU Takes Data Centers to Space
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 4 days ago
By harnessing low-cost, nonstop solar energy and avoiding land use and fossil fuels
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“low-cost” - Nothing about launching data centers into space is low cost
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“nonstop solar energy” Continuous solar energy is certainly nice, but that is a pretty minor buff compared to current ways of making power. If you think nuclear or solar+battery is expensive, go calculate the price for space-based solar per GW…
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“avoiding land use” - We have a fuckload of land. Datacenter land use is removing a bucket of water from the ocean.
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“fossil fuels” - I have bad news about how you get things to space…
thejml@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
It takes a lot of fossil fuels to push things to LEO let alone higher.