Mastodawn

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.

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MistaPlanet Feb 10

@astolk @jodmentum @sundogplanets

I just read the article now.
Quite brilliant

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MistaPlanet Feb 10

@jodmentum @sundogplanets

You started with a vague statement. Then proceeded to telling us about a totally unrelated Google/NASA, and then ended the post with the same vague statement you started with.

In everything you wrote, you didn't mention how it is a terrible thing to do or why you say it is unrealistic