Jerry 🦙💝🦙Mar 17

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 threadArtemisMar 17
@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 BellMar 17
@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 threadThe FrogMar 17

@ferrix @Artemis201 @jerry

It's easier and cheaper to put a data centre in a volcano than in space. And it takes less time to realise it doesn't work there, and melts after a few minutes.

Show threadArtemisMar 17
@Lily_and_frog @ferrix @jerry this
Show threadArtemisMar 17
@Lily_and_frog @ferrix @jerry I suppose you could try and dig a tunnel into the mantle. That might be worse, but only because we've barely even drilled that far.
Show threadGhostOnTheHalfShell

@Artemis201 @Lily_and_frog @ferrix @jerry

Hyperloop data! Cue boring company!

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