Jerry 🦙💝🦙3d ago

I’m catching up on the news today and see that Nvidia forecasts $1T in GPU sales over the next 18 months. That is crazy. I don’t know how that works at any level.

Also on the nvidia news front, they are making a version of the gpu for orbital datacenters. Now I’ve been around for a long, long time and I’ve heard some pretty dumb ideas in that time, and I feel like orbital datacenters is at least in the top 10.

Show threadArtemis3d ago
@jerry I am an aerospace engineer and literally have a PhD in this stuff.
I can confirm that space is essentially the worst place imaginable you could locate a datacenter.
Nvidia is 100% cashing in on this trend/bubble just because people are willing to entertain the idea, and by the time it all crashes, Nvidia doesn't care because they already sold their units.
Show threadGreg Bell3d ago
@Artemis201 @jerry oh come on there's worse places for a data center. How about inside a volcano? It's like we're hardly trying.
Show threadMx. Aria Stewart3d ago
@ferrix @Artemis201 @jerry At least there's thermal conduction in there
Show threadArtemis
@aredridel @ferrix @jerry and you could make it water cooled, and it would be shielded from radiation, and much easier to install replacement parts
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Show threadGreg Bell3d ago
@Artemis201 @aredridel @jerry ok I'm ready to invest in LavaFlare let's go
Show threaddatenwolf3d ago

@ferrix @Artemis201 @aredridel @jerry

Aha… THAT's the reason for the wall of lava lamp at the Cloudflare offices.

Show threadMx. Aria Stewart3d ago
@datenwolf @ferrix @Artemis201 @jerry Lol I hadn't thought about that for ages until this week, and now twice (this conversation and an episode of NCIS that took place in a tech company where that controlled the encryption for some process)