I’m catching up on the news today and see that Nvidia forecasts $1T in GPU sales over the next 18 months.

[aaron@chirp.zadzmo.org]

@jerry The one good thing I can say about orbital datacenters is:

The idea is so incredibly foolish that, no matter how hard they try, they won't get it to work.

Imagine trying to cool a GPU in a vacuum thermos.

[kwayk42@sechtor.social]

@jerry I would ask how Jensen Huang sleeps at night, but with that level of delusional he can probably convince himself that there is no AI bubble

[rx13@infosec.exchange]

@jerry
Just wait until you hear their next idea

[rotopenguin@mastodon.social]

@vathpela @drwho @jerry why wait for the sales department to hammer out a contract, when you could accrue the income right at the moment of "Altman and I were out doing shots, when we had a brilliant brainstorm"?

[ferrix@mastodon.online]

@Artemis201 @jerry oh come on there's worse places for a data center. How about inside a volcano? It's like we're hardly trying.

[paco@infosec.exchange]

@jerry I’m waiting for them to announce a geosynchronous orbit and a long-ass Ethernet cable from space for lower latency communication.

[lily_and_frog@mastodon.art]

@ferrix @Artemis201 @jerry

It's easier and cheaper to but a data centre in a volcano than in space. And it takes less time to realise it doesn't work there, and melts after a few minutes.

[popio@infosec.exchange]

@paco @jerry I love the idea of a space tether. But in think that this would increase latency.

[diazona@techhub.social]

@paco @jerry https://xkcd.com/37/

[artemis201@mstdn.social]

@Lily_and_frog @ferrix @jerry this

[lexinova@cyberplace.social]

@jerry they try to force somthing impossible to do because if it was possible, it would be the answer to ignore every single privacy law.

sadly they might be arround yes men, it will not bend what is scientifically possible in space with our current knowledge and technology.

[artemis201@mstdn.social]

@Lily_and_frog @ferrix @jerry I suppose you could try and dig a tunnel into the mantle. That might be worse, but only because we've barely even drilled that far.

[artemis201@mstdn.social]

@Quasit @jerry one of the primary issues with any space based systems. Your radiator would have to be unimaginably huge

[lmorchard@masto.hackers.town]

@aaron @jerry but but space cold

[artemis201@mstdn.social]

@aredridel @ferrix @jerry and you could make it water cooled, and it would be shielded from radiation, and much easier to install replacement parts

[fencepost@infosec.exchange]

@jerry yeah *NOW* they start believing in solar power.

Of course Dementia Don will probably start talking about building a coal fired power plant.

[lizette603_23@mastodon.social]

@Artemis201 @jerry I thought you liked like a rocket scientist..... must have been the picture oh, and your profile!

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@jerry

I am now terrified to ask what the top 10 list you do have is.

Nothing about the casino economy has any contact with reality. And when we take into consideration that a handful of billionaires own about 80% of all stocks, it’s just an inside game of their manipulating stock prices.

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@popio @paco @jerry Ethernet itself just uses electricity, so effectively the EM field moves at the speed of light. The real problems would be the voltage drop over such a long wire (so I guess it would have to use a non-standard super high voltage to get that far) and, much more importantly, somehow preventing the interference that would almost be 100% guaranteed to be far outside the range of anything ethernet was ever built for.

Oh, and, you know, storms and such would be... a problem...

Latency would actually be pretty incredible, but, everything going all explodey from time to time might be troublesome.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@Artemis201 @jerry

Maybe it is just a concept of a GPU. Elon Musk farts out the stupidest idea in the world and the funny money casino spins another round. Consider how much money the tech Bros have and how much ketamine they ingest on a daily basis.