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One thing I find fascinating in this thread is how orbital datacenters bring out such visceral reactions. I understand skepticism--maybe they will never be abl
by GMoromisato 2mo ago
One thing I find fascinating in this thread is how orbital datacenters bring out such visceral reactions.
I understand skepticism--maybe they will never be able to compete economically with terrestrial datacenters. But the profound certainty that detractors have is amazing to me.
There are a lot of unknowns, mostly around prices in 2030 (price to orbit, price per MW on Earth), but detractors are dead certain that not only will orbital datacenters fail, but they will never even be deployed because they violate the laws of physics. It's astounding.
- solid_fuel 2mo ago[flagged]
- GMoromisato 2mo agoElon-hate explains a lot.
- ben_w 2mo ago> I understand skepticism--maybe they will never be able to compete economically with terrestrial datacenters. But the profound certainty that detractors have is amazing to me. I need to finish the blog post about this. I'm around 10,000 words of confident right now about how bad an idea this is, regardless of each specific possible variation I can come up with about how to do it. Not physically impossible, by the way; just a terrible idea in multiple different dimensions at the same time.