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 threadQuasit3d ago

@Artemis201 @jerry

Yes, how would they dispose of waste heat? They're in a perfect vacuum!

Show threadArtemis3d ago
@Quasit @jerry one of the primary issues with any space based systems. Your radiator would have to be unimaginably huge
Show threadGhostOnTheHalfShell

@Artemis201 @Quasit @jerry

So you’re saying that we clone Elon Musk’s ego?

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