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> Current advances in AI are dependent on large terrestrial data centers, which require immense amounts of power and cooling. You know what's even harder to co
by jsheard 9mo ago
> Current advances in AI are dependent on large terrestrial data centers, which require immense amounts of power and cooling.
You know what's even harder to cool?
> Orbital Data Centers
- abakus 9mo agoNobody knows cooling satellites better than SpaceX
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- preisschild 9mo agoThis is basic physics lol Perhaps SpaceX incentive is to lie?
- lukan 9mo agoI cannot really tell satire apart from genuine opinions anymore. (But I do hope it was satire, if not, cooling satelites was/is a big issue and they only have very modest heat creation. A data center would be in a quite different ballpark)
- jsheard 9mo agoMaybe so, but the actual SpaceX engineers are powerless to stop Elon running his mouth.
- dwood_dev 9mo agoI really would like to see a cost and cooling breakdown. I just can't see how you can do radiative cooling on the scales required, not to mention hardening. I thought this was a troll by Elon, now I'm leaning towards not. I don't see how whatever you build being dramatically faster and cheaper to do on land, even 100% grid independent with solar and battery. Even if the launch cost was just fuel, everything else that goes into putting data centers in space dwarfs the cost of 4x solar plus battery.