There recently was a report on Channel 4 about an American Bitcoin psycho gathering in Vegas where people framed the tech as unter interplanetary payment system. Someone explain them bandwidth please.
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Space Nuttery is a mental illness.
It's such a hilariously dumb idea I hope the tech bros sink millions into it.
Lets make a data center we can't maintain, upgrade or access for any practical reason. Waiting for the suggestions to put them in geostationary orbits so that way their latency is even higher but going to struggle staying powered when in Earth's shadow. Or get put in the Earth-Sun L1 so they always have solar power but now have to have significant more radiators on top of even MORE latency beyond beyond the moon's orbit.
I’d rather we just seize the wealth they have stolen from the working people of the world and use it for something we actually need. Like healthcare, or reducing carbon emissions.
But futurism bro science idiots see all space adventurism as equal. They see billionaires wasting resources on ideas hashed out with an LLM during a ketamine bender as just as worthwhile and scientifically valid as a probe to deep space or a rover to Mars.
It makes sense if we have a space elevator and also invert the way most of the physics of data centers work.
The "good idea" isn't the data centers but the stock pumping. You propose something insanely difficult and expensive (also hopelessly impractical and stupid in this case) and because it is so difficult and expensive you claim you can monopolize the market if you succeed which is the ultimate dream of every capitalist but you just need some insane amount of investment to get there. Then when the money runs out you go back and ask for more and exploit sunk cost fallacy. All the while valuations increasing. It is an amazing way for already rich scammers to get much, much richer than could happen in a sane economy and slurp up huge amounts of capital that otherwise could have gone into more productive endeavors.
Obviously in any well regulated economic system this shit would be subject to some proper oversight to protect the interests of the majority, particularly all the people whose pensions and livelihoods are at risk when this all goes to shit.
In our time, squeezing everyone for their worth is all there is left for these people to get rich. They've run out of ways to squeeze and so are going for the last hurrah.
isnt thats what all the tech conferences are for, to hype the investors up. how long can they keep up with the peddling on those conferences? everytime a new con is our hub , its almost always a different usage of AI, so they need to come up with new "ideas" each time.
Just billionaire psychosis like where ai got to where it is to begin with. Obviously they’re all visionaries leading the world to a better place…
Conway's law strikes again!
I had a conversation with a colleague of mine about this. He believed that Musk's decision to merge xAI and SpaceX was truly because of the potential of datacenters in space. I was unable to convince him that the logistics of this would be a nightmare and that this was just a way to make the Twitter buyout SpaceX's problem.
It's the Elon's believe actually.
People that deal in computers think reality works like computers: just upgrade your drivers and download the reality you want.
I skimmed the title for a sec and thought "what's wrong with orbital stations?" before realizing the utter stupidity that graced my vision.
Right?! The particular rendition show is pretty remarkable. Like I'd question it as a small one off game asset
Imagine launching that scale of infrastructure, loaded full of Nvidia chips that'll be outdated in like 2 years.
And then it gets wiped out by one of his own satellites smashing through it at 25,000mph.
At medium earth orbit the minimum delay will be about 67ms (250 ms to 600+ ms for geostationary orbits) for LEO it is 25-50 ms. The average ground network ping on a good day is 1ms-20ms.
thats not even the worst problem, they would have to deal with potential orbital debris, solar radiation, flares.
And the biggest problem dumping waste heat, the only way to do it in a vacuum is via blackbody radiation.
ceos arnt exactly bright, they think space is "cold" so they assume the heat would radiate into nothingness.
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