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

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• the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I like how the absurdity scale just keeps going up when all we gotta do is kill like 400 people. Simple solutions.

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• JayTreeman@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I haven't read the article, but know a little bit. This is a thing only a person that thinks space is magic would think is a good idea. The big reason is heat. More specifically how to get rid of it. Our more realistic and earthbound data centers primarily use electricity to power cooling. How do you get rid of the heat in space? There's nothing to transfer the heat to.

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  • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Also, power. MFers acting like we got dilithium crystals up in here. And yeah, we probably could do Star Trek style ships if we had a way to make power in space…but we don’t, like, at ALL

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• Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Billionaires won’t rest until they end life on Earth. A lot of these psychopaths believe in the big replacement. They are morons having no clue that they too will die.

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• atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Anyone else feel like they are only floating this idea so that data centers in neighborhoods driving up the cost of electricity and polluting everything looks better by comparison?

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  • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Until someone has to go up to unplug it and plug it back in again. 😁

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    • ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I propose we adopt the space data center idea, as long as the billionaire owner is the one who has to go maintain it.

      They could just pull up on their bootstraps until they’re in orbit.

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• testfactor@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  To clarify, the article is just saying that it’s wildly unfeasible and prohibitively expensive.

  They’re not saying it’s dangerous or going to harm people in some way.

  I feel like some people may get the wrong idea from the headline.

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  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You mean they didn’t mention that the laws of physics make data transfer to and from orbit an absolute PitA and that no one would sit around for that long?

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