Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.

mech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• chunes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean a data center barge or one in Antarctica would do much the same and be wildly cheaper and (relatively) more practical.

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      • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        But those aren’t as “cool”

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    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Subpoena the ground stations?

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      • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh great, AI generated CSAM from space…

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    • XLE@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Little Space James

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  • chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Keep people from destroying data centers by having them destroy themselves? Is this some sort of zen koan?

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  • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Have to destroy the rockets that are used to maintain them then and just wait.

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    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They aren’t maintained. They’re a constellation of small satellites in LEO like starlink that just go up and eventually come down.

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      • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Pastry in spaaace! Still, eventually they will stop working.

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• TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  S o l a r. F l a r e

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also the whole being a vacuum thing makes heat dissipation much more difficult.

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• totesmygoat@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And an excellent way to scam a little. And fleece the flock

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• Ulvain@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s an insightful way of putting it, 10 points.

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