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Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. (taranis.ie)
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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I also wonder if this is an entire red herring. There are increasing reasons for more compute in space, such as to pre-filter sensor data.

Is it to naive/optimistic to think no one is actually looking for a space datacenter to compute terrestrial loads, but they recognize the need for processing space loads?

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 1 points 3 hours ago

See now you all are thinking.

The rich wouldn’t tell us this shit if it wasn’t going to be used as some spin/distraction whatever it is.