Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
gramie@lemmy.ca 2 days agoYes, but the two-and-a-half hour lag each way would be a killer.
Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
gramie@lemmy.ca 2 days agoYes, but the two-and-a-half hour lag each way would be a killer.
very_well_lost@lemmy.world 2 days ago
My understanding is that these “datacenters” would be used exclusively for model training, where latency doesn’t matter.
It is still an outrageously stupid idea for a zillion other engineering reasons, though.
gramie@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
There’s also the issue that around once a year the two planets will be on opposite sides of the sun. Not only would you have a lag of close to 3 hours, but communication would be completely impossible for a month or so at a time.