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

[viss@mastodon.social]

@chieroglyph @jerry you wouldnt be wrong. the size of transistors today is small enough that subatomic particles cause shorts and bitflips, and itll be interesting to see how the shit they're gonna try and solve for that

[artemis201@mstdn.social]

@jerry I am an aerospace engineer and literally have a PhD in this stuff.
I can confirm that space is essentially the worst place imaginable you could locate a datacenter.
Nvidia is 100% cashing in on this trend/bubble just because people are willing to entertain the idea, and by the time it all crashes, Nvidia doesn't care because they already sold their units.

[sheep_overboard@infosec.exchange]

@jerry

In related news, my RTX3090 cooked and I'm very sad.

[chieroglyph@infosec.exchange]

@Viss @jerry

Especially outside the magnetosphere where there isn't any reduction in solar radiation whatsoever.

[mattmay@mstdn.social]

@jerry Of course it’s a terrible idea. It’s Elon’s.

[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