JōdFeb 10

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.”

Have a look, @sundogplanets

https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/

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

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.

Taranis
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@jodmentum “A huge, ISS-sized, array could therefore power roughly 200 GPUs”

I’m surprised nobody is sealing GPUs underwater in the ocean. cc
@sundogplanets

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@peterrenshaw

Maybe environmental vacuum cooling is as fiddly and disaster prone as suberged liquid cooling.

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@lightbocks yes, I’m throwing the idea around in my head. Maybe using coastal areas with access to cold weather and seas could be useful? Another idea is looking at passive cooling via buildings?
Feb 10 at 10:37amWeb
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@peterrenshaw

Right direction.

Don't forget to add federation, or it's still just silicon colonization doing usual amounts of damage to neighborhoods and towns.

Energy intake and heat dispursion benefit greatly from federation.

Ie, home-manage, community supported solar getting panels or gardens on every roof v.s. destroying gardens and ecosystems for panel farms.

So I'd rather support small servers and help people find the most efficient placement for heat.

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@peterrenshaw
Considering we can and do crowd source protien folding models trying to cure cancers... Big data doesn't really have anything I want, I guess.
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@peterrenshaw
to be clear, when I made my origional comment I was dying inside of @Markiplier going through the beggining, middle, end, and eight stages of greif with Mirabilite/ Decahydrated sodium sulfate mineral/ GlauberSalt.
(pop culture sillyness, spare w.c. labs)

Typical, there's a lot more sand in the math than a rug-seller tells you.
Rug-makers, on the other hand? Half of them won't shut up about dirt -- best to clean rugs though.

this has been a metaphore about any crafting workflow.