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cm0002@libretechni.ca to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 3 days ago

Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.

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Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.

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cm0002@libretechni.ca to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 3 days ago
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There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.
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    Yeah, but that’s the point. It’s a boondoggle. Grifters need a bottomless hole for marks to pour money down.

  • WraithGear@lemmy.world
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    i believe that cooling in space is EVEN HARDER then cooling in atmosphere. something about a near vacuum being a terrible, terrible thermal conductor

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      Vibrating atoms got nowhere to disperse vibrations if no other atoms present

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    I like how the absurdity scale just keeps going up when all we gotta do is kill like 400 people. Simple solutions.

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    I haven’t read the article, but know a little bit. This is a thing only a person that thinks space is magic would think is a good idea. The big reason is heat. More specifically how to get rid of it. Our more realistic and earthbound data centers primarily use electricity to power cooling. How do you get rid of the heat in space? There’s nothing to transfer the heat to.

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      Only so much heat can be radiated away.

    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      This is a thing only a person that thinks space is magic would think is a good idea.

      Pretty sure this is a primary basis of scientific “education”, worship of the moon/mars, etc.

      It’s always been about extracting resources from rubes for worthless, profitable “goals” while actual humans suffer.

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      Also, power. MFers acting like we got dilithium crystals up in here. And yeah, we probably could do Star Trek style ships if we had a way to make power in space…but we don’t, like, at ALL

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        Umm… We absolutely do, solar panels. Constant full exposure to the sun adds up quick, especially when they don’t even need structural support

        There’s plenty of problems with this idea, but power is the one strong point

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          Perhaps you should review the power that solar panels designed for space flight can draw vs the requirements of a single GPU.

          We are not even close to having robust enough solar panels to make this a reality, let alone powering a datacenter full of GPUs.

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    Billionaires won’t rest until they end life on Earth. A lot of these psychopaths believe in the big replacement. They are morons having no clue that they too will die.

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      TBH the billionaires might survive along with other cockroaches. They’ll at least outlast us plebs above ground…

      • https://www.aol.com/articles/person-builds-bunkers-billionaires-invited-075738767.html
      • https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jeff-bezos-makes-extravagant-renovations-of-3-billionaire-bunker-homes-53c8b929
      • https://therealdeal.com/magazine/december-2025/how-a-nondescript-inland-development-became-palm-beach-countys-billionaire-bunker/
      • https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/celebrity-survival-secrets-8-a-listers-building-doomsday-bunkers-and-why-you-might-want-to/ar-AA1RrOQV
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        Remember they have to hire people to build those, and we will find them and destroy them before life ends. Those fucks don’t get to live.

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    Anyone else feel like they are only floating this idea so that data centers in neighborhoods driving up the cost of electricity and polluting everything looks better by comparison?

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      They don’t need their bullshit grift to look good. They’re going to build it anyway.

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      Until someone has to go up to unplug it and plug it back in again. 😁

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        I propose we adopt the space data center idea, as long as the billionaire owner is the one who has to go maintain it.

        They could just pull up on their bootstraps until they’re in orbit.

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    To clarify, the article is just saying that it’s wildly unfeasible and prohibitively expensive.

    They’re not saying it’s dangerous or going to harm people in some way.

    I feel like some people may get the wrong idea from the headline.

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      It’s absolutely harmful to waste resources on worthless grifting at the expense of the planet and people suffering from very real deprivation.

      That’s part of why it’s the same people promoting both the grift and the deprivation.

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        Sure, but that’s not what the article is saying, to be clear.

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      You mean they didn’t mention that the laws of physics make data transfer to and from orbit an absolute PitA and that no one would sit around for that long?

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