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What exactly is the selling point for an orbital data centre? Satellites for connectivity to ground-based data centres seems to make sense, but that seems like
by hakfoo 5mo ago
What exactly is the selling point for an orbital data centre?
Satellites for connectivity to ground-based data centres seems to make sense, but that seems like it's relatively light hardware compared to a rack full of compute and storage.
If we're looking for apocalypse-scale redundancy, we already have all sorts of ground-based infrastructure and multi-continental designs on earth already.
I wonder if it's some weird play in the seasteading style-- if they put the data in space, it's outside the reach of any government except ones willing to jam the airwaves or fire missiles capable of reaching orbit.