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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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[–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months 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.

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