Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 ep 73

[emilymbender@dair-community.social]

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 ep 73

Data Centers in Space!? (with Dr. Adam Becker), 2026.03.02 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

Data centers are overburdening the planet, so tech billionaires have a new scheme — put 'em in space! Astrophysicist Dr. Adam Becker joins Alex and Emily to launch this plan into the sun. We unpack all the reasons that this hilariously terrible idea will never be viable outside of sci-fi-villain ...

Buzzsprout (www.buzzsprout.com)

@alex and I had big fun laughing with Dr. Adam Becker at the utter uninformedness of the tech bros’ space ambitions.

[agentandy@social.kept.live]

@emilymbender Love the Mystery AI Hype Theater series. What is the most surprising hype claim you have debunked recently?

[hopfgeist@digitalcourage.social]

@emilymbender @alex Scott Manley made a video about cooling computers in space, and explained how Starlink V3 would work out, but shied away from talking too much about the ridiculousness of the whole endeavour of putting huge data centres into orbit. It is probably even more insanely, ridiculously stupid than Hyperloop and has a much lower chance of becoming reality than even the Boom Overture supersonic airliner, which I put at very close to zero.

[phosphenes@mastodon.social]

@emilymbender @alex

'We're probably going to need Earth'

[phosphenes@mastodon.social]

@hopfgeist @emilymbender @alex

I say we should put all the AI into millions of electric toothbrushes where it can be dynamically cooled with human spit. Fight plaque while the chatbot in your mouth plagiarizes term papers.

[cimb4@norden.social]

@emilymbender @alex Dr. Adam Becker sounds like an emkay narrator