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

• tedach@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pardon my potential ignorance, but I’m under the assumption that radiating heat in vacuum is NOT easy. Normally, heat escapes from sources into the surrounding atmosphere, whereas in space, only radiant heat (IR?) can bleed off into vacuum. The conductive heat from, say, a cycling loop of water still needs a radiator that vents into surrounding volume. Without atmosphere, radiators can’t conduct efficiently, right?

  Please set me straight if possible.

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  • Murdoc@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m no expert, but this is my understanding as well.

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• rimu@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  These are my thoughts https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/

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  • Krunchiebro@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Your thoughts were really well written. I’m glad you took the time to explain your viewpoints organically instead of taking an easy way out to avoid having to do it yourself.

    How about this for what my post was trying to say…

    It’s a good idea to the person who can pull it off. It will be highly profitable and they will monopolize that ecosystem. For the rest of us, if this were ever to become adopted wide spread, it has the potential to make something that normal people can no longer compete with and can’t easily avoid (assuming it is significantly subsidized initially to offset cost and get users to adopt it)

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• MissesAutumnRains@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m no expert, but I feel like a data center in space is a super niche use case. Bandwidth seems like it would be a major issue. Heat seems like it would as well. And as you said, jurisdiction would be a problem that many businesses wouldn’t necessarily want to contend with.

  While the devices are difficult to get to physically, should an adversarial state actor send something up, it’s not like we could stop them from accessing the devices in a way we could if they were within the borders of a country. They’re harder to reach for smaller adversaries, and significantly easier for bigger ones. Not to mention significantly harder for us to repair if something goes wrong.

  I’m not saying data centers in space are a bad idea in general, but I am not seeing a huge benefit to them right now.

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