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We can barely tolerate the latency and throughput limitations between Europe and the US for data center processing... and now we're okay with data being wireles
by softfalcon 2y ago
We can barely tolerate the latency and throughput limitations between Europe and the US for data center processing... and now we're okay with data being wirelessly transmitted (read: super slow) from Earth to the Moon?
Building something on the moon would be cool, but a data center? Unlikely.
- debesyla 2y agoUntil we make a really long USB-C cable. ...or, just, use the moon servers as an extreme form of backups only. Rarely used, used only for the essential data.
- nofunsir 2y agowe could encode it into true solid state form, maybe in the form of a giant rectangular monolith, and bury it...
- smitelli 2y ago> super slow $ units Currency exchange rates from FloatRates (USD base) on 2022-12-14 3753 units, 113 prefixes, 120 nonlinear units You have: (2 * 238854 mi) / c You want: ms * 2564.4291 / 0.00038995034 Over 2.5 seconds round trip. And just imagine the on-call shifts. "Sorry honey, PDU failed. I'll be back four days after the next-next launch window opens."