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Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
mech@feddit.org 12 hours ago
They’re a great idea if you happen to own a company making AI, a company making rockets, and a company controlling public opinion.
TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 8 hours ago
Also the whole being a vacuum thing makes heat dissipation much more difficult.
totesmygoat@piefed.ca 10 hours ago
And an excellent way to scam a little. And fleece the flock
Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
That’s an insightful way of putting it, 10 points.
chunes@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I envision a future so shitty that people are willing to physically destroy data centers in self-defense. Putting them in space is a really good way to combat that.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Putting them in space also puts them technically outside of the legal jurisdiction of any country. I figure fElon probably assumes that means said servers can never be subpoenaed.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 11 hours ago
I mean a data center barge or one in Antarctica would do much the same and be wildly cheaper and (relatively) more practical.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 11 hours ago
But those aren’t as “cool”
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Subpoena the ground stations?
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Oh yeah it’s totally a bullshit argument, it wouldn’t hold water in any court. Hell if nothing else, the ground stations like you said, or the country whose airspace the center exists over, would be in jurisdiction.
But I do believe that Musk believes it’s a get out of jail free card.
XLE@piefed.social 7 hours ago
Little Space James
chaogomu@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Putting data centers in space is a good way to keep people from destroying them. Thermodynamics on the other hand, will have a field day with them.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Keep people from destroying data centers by having them destroy themselves? Is this some sort of zen koan?
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
Have to destroy the rockets that are used to maintain them then and just wait.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
They aren’t maintained. They’re a constellation of small satellites in LEO like starlink that just go up and eventually come down.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Wasn’t it recently proven that the metals introduced into the upper atmosphere by satellites burning up depletes ozone? Its not a problem yet but maintaining constellations on the scale of cumulative several gigawatts of data centre would leave several tons of satellite burning up every single day. CFC Ozone hole is gonna look like a cloudy day in comparison.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Pastry in spaaace! Still, eventually they will stop working.