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Eric Schmidt apparently bought Relativity Space to put data centers in orbit (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (11 children)

I genuinely cannot understand his point of view. AI data centers in space? I guess we’ll just make a solar veil the size of Texas to power it. And the cooling would have to be done by opening it up to let the solar winds cool everything. We can also have the ISS come fix something when it breaks. But otherwise: This dude just sounds like the guy who wanted to visit the Titantic in a carbon fiber bean. I can’t help but feel like he knows this is just a stupid idea and is going to embezzle the investor money

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

And the cooling would have to be done by opening it up to let the solar winds cool everything

Space is cold as fuck, might not be the worst idea

edit: from the article itself

Such data centers, ideally, would be powered by solar panels and be able to radiate heat into the vacuum of space.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

In the shade, but that's not always available in orbit. The ISS uses massive radiators to shed waste heat.

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