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AI in space, for all that sweet sweet latency.

• robotresearcher 5mo ago
  Space is not far away at all.
  • thephyber 5mo ago
    Do data centers in space still depreciate GPUs over 6 years if the datacenter falls to Earth in 3?
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• bonzini 5mo ago
  More like for all that sweet sweet cooling capacity. EDIT: guys, it's sarcastic... since the parent was talking about latency, cooling is something that is even worse in space than latency
  • jordanb 5mo ago
    If putting data centers in a vacuum is a good idea why not just put them in a thermos bottle here on earth?
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    • robotresearcher 5mo ago
      If it made the energy free, we’d take a very good look at it.
  • kevin_thibedeau 5mo ago
    It is not easy to radiate heat in space. You need a significant extra mass budget to radiate heat from hardware that is easily cooled in less volume on the surface. These will also be too large of a capital investment to operate as disposable satellites at the bottom of LEO. They will necessarily be higher up.
    • bonzini 5mo ago
      I'm bad at sarcasm apparently.
      • prerok 5mo ago
        Well, unfortunately, it's not such common knowledge that it would be considered sarcastic by default. I have learned to be explicit by appending "/s" or "/j" so it's clearer.
  • senderista 5mo ago
    This has been debunked countless times. You can't cool things efficiently in space.