This is such a dumb concept and likely exists entirely to wow investors. A single AI server with 8 GPUs produces something like 7000 watts of heat, if not more. And likewise, will require at least that much power. Sure, solar is "free" once you've got the panels in space. The real killer though is dissipating all that heat. Obviously, there's no atmosphere in space to transfer heat to. Your only option is purely IR radiation which is significantly less efficient. To put this in context, the ISS's heat dissipation system can dissipate about 14,000 watts. Ignoring all of the other infra that goes into a data-center, that would be two servers. You add all this up, the mass of the supporting infrastructure would far out-weigh the actual servers. And the economies of satellites and rocket launches comes down to mass.
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how about we launch elon musk into the orbit
Most efficient way of spying on governments and people.
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Fucking LOL he’s such a space cadet. Cooling a computer in space is an engineering challenge. Down here on earth you can just blow on it.
You know, I am beginning to think that a single private individual shouldn't have the power to do things like this.
Also why is an US agency (well, the Orange in this case) deciding for entire space? The same goes to other countries.
I agree, but unfortunately that same thing happens terrestrially. One country decides to reverse course on renewables and the whole world suffers the consequences. Companies pollute one river and the trash and chemicals can be found worldwide. We have not been good stewards of the earth, and I fear space will just be a continuation of that. I can't believe AI has found a new way to ruin the environment already. I'd laugh about all the techbros insisting we have to invest in AI because then the AI will solve every problem, only to then have them use AI as an excuse to ruin the environment, but it's all too much.
In principle, sure. In practice, it seems like the ornery and the thin-skinned rise wayyyyyyy past the humble and the competent.
The cascading satellite collisions event (Kessler syndrome) might start earlier than I was hoping for. Good grief.
Well, this is a stupid idea and it's probably not going to happen. That said, if someone were to do this, it probably wouldn't contribute much to Kessler syndrome because you wouldn't actually want a million free floating satellites, you'd want a million physically connected satellites. Picture satellites designed to link up into a giant grid. Effectively, that's just adding 1 large satellite, built over a thousand launches. And you wouldn't want it in low earth orbit either, you'd want it higher, where it could get sunlight 24/7 365. And at those middle orbits, between leo and gso, there's really no competition for space there, that zone is empty.
This mention of a "growing demand for AI computing power" doesn't make even a shred of sense to me. Who exactly needs even more power for that? We're fully inundated with this shit, enough is enough.
Ugh
No.
He's such a dickhead
He's determined to ruin ground-based astronomy because of his ego
I interpreted this as not a power issue, but a cooling issue. So it's a solution to using less water.
Cooling is much, much harder in space. You lose out on easy heat transfer through convection and conduction due to being in vacuum and are limited to using massive and inefficient radiators that can barely cool spacecraft running slow, decades-old chips (hardening modern chips to survive cosmic radiation is another problem Musk probably has no answer for). The thought of running a modern data center in space is absurd.
He probably thinks that because space is cold, it automatically keeps anything in it cold with no efforts needed. He has the worldview and general understanding of a particularly dense child.
This pedo is gonna bring hellfire to earth when those 1 mil satellites overheat and rain down on us.
This pedo is gonna bring hellfire to earth whe those 1 mil satellites over heat and rain down on us.
Space is drastically worse for cooling things afaik. Like extremely worse than earth.
As other have said, it's not cooling. Vacuum is a great insulator. I think it's about planning permission.
He's just making noise because ce craves attention
Nobody likes him, he's pathetically insecure, and he's afraid that he won't be remembered if he doesn't keep doing stupid shit
First step in building The Singularity's Dyson Sphere? This is probably Grok's idea.
Pedophile sets up global internet he can control so he can be a pedophile.
If their operation works as well as Tesla's Autopilot, then no fucking thanks, ass-wipe.
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