i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit
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@ariadne yeah the point about cooling seems decisive to us, we don't see what could possibly address that
@ireneista @ariadne I see none of the concerns about anything resembling a stock server (even a hyperscaler one) not rattling itself apart getting there.
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like, i dunno man, i think datacenters weigh a lot.
i don't think we have the rocket to launch something that would actually be meaningful at scale.
starship keeps exploding
@ariadne yeah but think how much money you'd make as a remote hands tech
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like, i dunno man, i think datacenters weigh a lot.
i don't think we have the rocket to launch something that would actually be meaningful at scale.
starship keeps exploding
@ariadne I'll start believing in orbital data centers when we'll be able to remote manage servers without remote hands in practice. -
@ariadne yeah but think how much money you'd make as a remote hands tech
@me nah these hyperscalers just abandon broken servers and let them rot. it's sad.
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@ireneista i have a more fundamental concern: servers weigh a lot. like the average DC probably has like hundreds of tons in servers alone.
@ariadne @ireneista bUt tHeRe iZ nO gRaViTy iN sPaCE!!!!!!!!
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@ariadne @ireneista bUt tHeRe iZ nO gRaViTy iN sPaCE!!!!!!!!
@joshbressers @ireneista there's gravity here
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@ariadne yeah the point about cooling seems decisive to us, we don't see what could possibly address that
@ireneista @ariadne if you can power it you can probably cool it, the math works out to roughly the same areal space as the arrays. everything else about orbial dc's is more unrealistic in our opinion
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@ireneista i have a more fundamental concern: servers weigh a lot. like the average DC probably has like hundreds of tons in servers alone.
@ariadne @ireneista I think the idea is to put a lot of smaller units of compute into a huge starlink-style cluster that communicate with each other as well as the ground.
But of course now you're adding extra launch costs, distributed computing *in space*, and many other new problems on top of the cooling one.
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@ariadne @ireneista I think the idea is to put a lot of smaller units of compute into a huge starlink-style cluster that communicate with each other as well as the ground.
But of course now you're adding extra launch costs, distributed computing *in space*, and many other new problems on top of the cooling one.
@megmac @ireneista even if it is not as a single unit, it has to be launched into space
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@megmac @ireneista even if it is not as a single unit, it has to be launched into space
@ariadne @megmac you're right, yeah, the tyranny of the rocket equation and all that. there are many serious obstacles and that's one of them; we personally focus on heat dissipation because the answer to "that will cost so much it will bankrupt the world" is "that's okay, this is our destiny! do it anyway!" whereas the answer to "we don't know how" is, at least, some form of "oh okay we'll have to invent something new then"
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@ariadne @megmac you're right, yeah, the tyranny of the rocket equation and all that. there are many serious obstacles and that's one of them; we personally focus on heat dissipation because the answer to "that will cost so much it will bankrupt the world" is "that's okay, this is our destiny! do it anyway!" whereas the answer to "we don't know how" is, at least, some form of "oh okay we'll have to invent something new then"
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like, i dunno man, i think datacenters weigh a lot.
i don't think we have the rocket to launch something that would actually be meaningful at scale.
starship keeps exploding
@ariadne Let 'em try to put the proposed Stratos data center in Utah into orbit. If they manage it, we'll have no problem with Moonbase Alpha (without the nuclear waste dumps).
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like, i dunno man, i think datacenters weigh a lot.
i don't think we have the rocket to launch something that would actually be meaningful at scale.
starship keeps exploding
farmers across the midwest: It’s raining RAM chips!
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like, i dunno man, i think datacenters weigh a lot.
i don't think we have the rocket to launch something that would actually be meaningful at scale.
starship keeps exploding
@ariadne Doesn't matter if you could even. It'll throttle to 10 Mhz because it's impossible to shed any heat.
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i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit
@ariadne rule
of thumb: if Elon says it, 99.9% chance it’s bullshit he made up that will never happen……YouTube is filled with videos with the receipts
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@ariadne Doesn't matter if you could even. It'll throttle to 10 Mhz because it's impossible to shed any heat.
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@ska @ariadne When coked out tech bros say it, their investor fanboys listen and the money flows. The fact that the thing can never work just makes it all the more lucrative for scamming investors, since you never have to deliver; you can just keep escalating the promises to something new and keep passing the worthless paper on to new rounds of marks.
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@ska @ariadne When coked out tech bros say it, their investor fanboys listen and the money flows. The fact that the thing can never work just makes it all the more lucrative for scamming investors, since you never have to deliver; you can just keep escalating the promises to something new and keep passing the worthless paper on to new rounds of marks.
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