Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
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Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
“I am a former NASA engineer/scientist with a PhD in space electronics. I also worked at Google for 10 years, in various parts of the company including YouTube and the bit of Cloud responsible for deploying AI capacity, so I'm quite well placed to have an opinion here.
The short version: this is an absolutely terrible idea, and really makes zero sense whatsoever.” @sundogplanetshttps://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/
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Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
“I am a former NASA engineer/scientist with a PhD in space electronics. I also worked at Google for 10 years, in various parts of the company including YouTube and the bit of Cloud responsible for deploying AI capacity, so I'm quite well placed to have an opinion here.
The short version: this is an absolutely terrible idea, and really makes zero sense whatsoever.” @sundogplanetshttps://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/
@jodmentum Yes, I can’t imagine how the economics could make sense. One proposed data center for Alberta is looking at 1Gw of power and two million sq feet. How could you construct anything comparable. Heat dissipation component failure and upgrades, bandwidth. What are the advantages of space…
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@jodmentum Yes, I can’t imagine how the economics could make sense. One proposed data center for Alberta is looking at 1Gw of power and two million sq feet. How could you construct anything comparable. Heat dissipation component failure and upgrades, bandwidth. What are the advantages of space…
@RichardNairn @jodmentum Wall-E taught me that “There’s plenty of space out in space.”
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