<![CDATA[i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit]]>i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/4d96c9e6-8009-47ef-ac3d-2c69f6190970/i-ll-believe-in-orbital-data-centers-as-soon-as-i-see-one-in-orbit-until-then-it-is-just-bullshitRSS for NodeThu, 14 May 2026 23:25:08 GMTTue, 12 May 2026 23:34:48 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit on Wed, 13 May 2026 07:08:57 GMT]]>@ariadne@treehouse.systems @dalias@hachyderm.io @ska@treehouse.systems challenge accepted
]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hj.9fs.net/cgnarne/p/1778656137.725153https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hj.9fs.net/cgnarne/p/1778656137.725153Wed, 13 May 2026 07:08:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit on Wed, 13 May 2026 05:17:05 GMT]]>@ska @dalias @ariadne The real waste is a ton of money being wasted that could have been spent on more useful things. Like solving world hunger.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/alwayscurious/statuses/116565568750678415https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/alwayscurious/statuses/116565568750678415Wed, 13 May 2026 05:17:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit on Wed, 13 May 2026 05:14:13 GMT]]>@ariadne Can it be done? Yes. Is it a good idea? Absolutely not.

The cooling and power problems are absolutely solveable with enough work. The financial problems are not solveable in the forseeable future.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/alwayscurious/statuses/116565557487618421https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/alwayscurious/statuses/116565557487618421Wed, 13 May 2026 05:14:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit on Wed, 13 May 2026 04:23:18 GMT]]>@ariadne weeeelll… if it gets us an asteroid mining industry, maybe it’s worth it? 😉

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bne.social/users/leadegroot/statuses/116565357243085346https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bne.social/users/leadegroot/statuses/116565357243085346Wed, 13 May 2026 04:23:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit on Wed, 13 May 2026 02:52:52 GMT]]>@ariadne @dalias @ska space-datacenter but space- means the same as space-cake.
Or effectively a weed farm/bar.]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://queer.hacktivis.me/objects/e704da7a-4be0-46df-b7b9-8544c6bec100https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://queer.hacktivis.me/objects/e704da7a-4be0-46df-b7b9-8544c6bec100Wed, 13 May 2026 02:52:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit on Wed, 13 May 2026 02:48:40 GMT]]>@dalias @ska datacenters in space literally sounds like something I would come up with if I smoked way too much weed

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/ariadne/statuses/116564985151298688https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/ariadne/statuses/116564985151298688Wed, 13 May 2026 02:48:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit on Wed, 13 May 2026 02:44:21 GMT]]>@dalias @ariadne My only hope is that the "finding out" phase happens while I'm still alive and able to watch. And ideally still able to help with the rebuild.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/ska/statuses/116564968189609521https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/ska/statuses/116564968189609521Wed, 13 May 2026 02:44:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit on Wed, 13 May 2026 02:41:35 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/dalias/statuses/116564957330983594https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/dalias/statuses/116564957330983594Wed, 13 May 2026 02:41:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit on Wed, 13 May 2026 02:39:52 GMT]]>@dalias @ariadne Yeah, of all the things you could want to have in space, datacenters are like the last on my list.

The only explanation why the idea even exists is that it came directly out of a coked out techbro and was considered genius by a bunch of other coked out techbros.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/ska/statuses/116564950564771505https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/ska/statuses/116564950564771505Wed, 13 May 2026 02:39:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit on Wed, 13 May 2026 01:08:11 GMT]]>@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

@nullagent

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/filmfreak75/statuses/116564590026368653https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/filmfreak75/statuses/116564590026368653Wed, 13 May 2026 01:08:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit on Wed, 13 May 2026 00:44:33 GMT]]>@ariadne Doesn't matter if you could even. It'll throttle to 10 Mhz because it's impossible to shed any heat.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/dalias/statuses/116564497136476480https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/dalias/statuses/116564497136476480Wed, 13 May 2026 00:44:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit on Wed, 13 May 2026 00:03:37 GMT]]>@ariadne

farmers across the midwest: It’s raining RAM chips!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.targaryen.house/users/cerement/statuses/116564336179953957https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.targaryen.house/users/cerement/statuses/116564336179953957Wed, 13 May 2026 00:03:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit on Tue, 12 May 2026 23:56:44 GMT]]>@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).

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/tknarr/statuses/116564309107299714https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/tknarr/statuses/116564309107299714Tue, 12 May 2026 23:56:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit on Tue, 12 May 2026 23:53:23 GMT]]>@ariadne @megmac there's this very grim calculus that informs which objection we choose to focus on when trying to make an argument that we want to be taken seriously by people ideologically distant from ourselves

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://adhd.irenes.space/users/ireneista/statuses/01KRF9R31DAT3T3B7RVH9ZPE8Ahttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://adhd.irenes.space/users/ireneista/statuses/01KRF9R31DAT3T3B7RVH9ZPE8ATue, 12 May 2026 23:53:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit on Tue, 12 May 2026 23:52:44 GMT]]>@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"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://adhd.irenes.space/users/ireneista/statuses/01KRF9PWVWQJZDARGP0765WN92https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://adhd.irenes.space/users/ireneista/statuses/01KRF9PWVWQJZDARGP0765WN92Tue, 12 May 2026 23:52:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit on Tue, 12 May 2026 23:49:47 GMT]]>@megmac @ireneista even if it is not as a single unit, it has to be launched into space

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/ariadne/statuses/116564281783707451https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/ariadne/statuses/116564281783707451Tue, 12 May 2026 23:49:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit on Tue, 12 May 2026 23:49:04 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/megmac/statuses/116564278916026224https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/megmac/statuses/116564278916026224Tue, 12 May 2026 23:49:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit on Tue, 12 May 2026 23:49:03 GMT]]>@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

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/rho/statuses/116564278857548201https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/rho/statuses/116564278857548201Tue, 12 May 2026 23:49:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit on Tue, 12 May 2026 23:47:39 GMT]]>@joshbressers @ireneista there's gravity here

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/ariadne/statuses/116564273385146421https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/ariadne/statuses/116564273385146421Tue, 12 May 2026 23:47:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit on Tue, 12 May 2026 23:47:23 GMT]]>@ariadne @ireneista bUt tHeRe iZ nO gRaViTy iN sPaCE!!!!!!!!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/joshbressers/statuses/116564272307529686https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/joshbressers/statuses/116564272307529686Tue, 12 May 2026 23:47:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit on Tue, 12 May 2026 23:46:22 GMT]]>@me nah these hyperscalers just abandon broken servers and let them rot. it's sad.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/ariadne/statuses/116564268312100405https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/ariadne/statuses/116564268312100405Tue, 12 May 2026 23:46:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit on Tue, 12 May 2026 23:45:53 GMT]]>@ariadne I'll start believing in orbital data centers when we'll be able to remote manage servers without remote hands in practice.]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://queer.hacktivis.me/objects/7a6ef3d2-3d47-4eb2-8481-aa27aebb28adhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://queer.hacktivis.me/objects/7a6ef3d2-3d47-4eb2-8481-aa27aebb28adTue, 12 May 2026 23:45:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit on Tue, 12 May 2026 23:45:46 GMT]]>@ariadne yeah but think how much money you'd make as a remote hands tech

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://f3d1.thom.cat/users/me/statuses/01KRF9A4RD76J5D9RS7GKP7402https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://f3d1.thom.cat/users/me/statuses/01KRF9A4RD76J5D9RS7GKP7402Tue, 12 May 2026 23:45:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'll believe in orbital data centers as soon as i see one in orbit, until then it is just bullshit on Tue, 12 May 2026 23:45:43 GMT]]>@ireneista @ariadne I see none of the concerns about anything resembling a stock server (even a hyperscaler one) not rattling itself apart getting there.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tacobelllabs.net/users/arrjay/statuses/116564265737598233https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tacobelllabs.net/users/arrjay/statuses/116564265737598233Tue, 12 May 2026 23:45:43 GMT