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Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company (www.wired.com)
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In a blog post, Musk said the acquisition was warranted because global electricity demand for AI cannot be met with “terrestrial solutions,” and Silicon Valley will soon need to build data centers in space to power its AI ambitions.

This dumb fuck. Unfortunately, his boosters will be all-in on this messaging. Whatever.

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[–] 4 points 9 months ago (12 children)

Data centers in space sounds like one hell of an expensive investment for something that has not once shown any profitability yet, and are in fact most likely about to burst its bubble in the near future.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (11 children)

    No need for water or maintaining a clean room kinda useful.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (10 children)

    No need for water

    ?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    Kinda difficult to get water up there, it has to be conduction/radiation.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (8 children)

    That doesn't answer the question of why you think servers having no access to water up there is a benefit.

    It's an obstacle, not a solution to an obstacle.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (7 children)

    Because we common folk need fresh water down here. They can innovate their own vapor chamber, the ISS is being cooled without water already.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (6 children)

    You're doing mental gymnastics to make orbital server farms seem less stupid than they are. Why?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (5 children)

    You do realise it's already being planned for execution right?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (4 children)

    Are you rage baiting? I'm starting to like Lemmy's block feature but I don't know if you're doing this on purpose or by accident.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    As michevious as it might be, here's a paper explaining the potential of using solar to run TPUs https://research.google/blog/exploring-a-space-based-scalable-ai-infrastructure-system-design/

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Your entire half of this conversation is one big straw man argument.

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