Zack WhittakerOct 13
We really have to stop uncritically accepting the batshit drivel that billionaires come up with. Their main qualification is exploiting people at scale to enrich themselves with power and money, and they will do and say anything to keep it that way, especially if they pitch it as "the future."
Show threadPaco Hope

@zackwhittaker Fascinating thing about putting data centers "in space." I was reading about humans exposed to the vacuum of space and one of the interesting issues is that there's no matter to conduct heat to. You have to dissipate heat by radiating and that's hard.

So their conjuring of ideas like "data centers in space" is just more magical thinking like the LLMs themselves.

Microsoft tried the far more practical underwater data center, but we don't see more of that.

Seems that sustainable computing has fallen by the wayside versus usustainable profiteering.

What would happen to the human body in the vacuum of space?

Nothing pleasant.

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Oct 13 at 7:46pmWeb