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

• skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.

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  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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    • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But those aren’t as “cool”

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  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Subpoena the ground stations?

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    • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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      • elvith@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Agreed. The US can access/subpoena any data it wants from US companies, even if the servers they host the data on are in Europe or Asia or…

        It doesn’t matter where the servers and the data is located. It matters who posses (or controls the access) to it.

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Little Space James

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• chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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• JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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    • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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