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Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. (taranis.ie)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 48 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I don't think the point is to really build datacenters in space. The point is to convince investors that it can be done in a profitable manner so some people can create a fake businesses out of it and siphon money off the system. Much like the same as trying to convince investors that LLM + more money = AGI

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I also wonder if this is an entire red herring. There are increasing reasons for more compute in space, such as to pre-filter sensor data.

    Is it to naive/optimistic to think no one is actually looking for a space datacenter to compute terrestrial loads, but they recognize the need for processing space loads?

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