impermanen_ 🕊️RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116053742685475452
Tomorrow (Friday) the last day to make an official stand against a fuckwit billionaire filling the sky with hundreds of thousands of AI datacenters and destroying the ozone layer.
k3ym𖺀@impermanen_ hi, yes, hello. I too like standing against fuckwit billionaires (fuckwitaires?).
What do I do?
Artemis@k3ym0 @impermanen_ the linked post has instructions for filing a formal complaint
Abram Kedge🏴🇨🇦 wrylyETA video with the numbers calculated: https://youtu.be/-w6G7VEwNq0
@impermanen_ The data centres just won't work. Space is NOT a great place for dissipating heat, it's a near vacuum so conduction and convection can't take away the heat, it has to be radiated. A data centre creates many times more heat than the ISS, which has eight 3m long radiators. The cooling array would be huge, and the solar cells for each data centre would be far larger than that. We're talking hundreds of tons for each [EDIT: terrestrial data centre equivalent - however many satellites that is].
Musk is way off base here. He's talking about putting up a million devices, each dozens of times bigger than the International Space Station.
He should be thinking of putting data centres deep in the ocean, if he wants free cooling and energy.
Space Data Centers Are Dumb.
@AbramKedge I’m familiar with the argument (to which I think there is no rebuttal) that cooling datacenters in space would be extremely difficult, absurdly costly, and due to fragility yield no significant advantage. I can only conclude that the man has other motives for owning a million satellites in low-earth orbit that he’d rather not discuss. 🤔
WesDym@impermanen_ This is important, but it is not the only way to protest.
All federal agencies are answerable to Congress. Write your congress-critters about it, too. The FCC cannot ignore them. Remember to clearly identify yourself as a constituent, using your legal name (what you file taxes under) and tax-filing / voting / legal domicile address.
Having done plenty of business with the FCC myself, I assure that this can be very effective, even decisive. Everyone has a boss.