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Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue (tech.yahoo.com)
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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 14 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Yet Microsoft abandoned the idea because it was so fraught with commercialisation issues. Which is exactly what the experts are saying

Can't maintain, can't upgrade, can't repair, it pollutes the environment with abandoned shit and it doesn't scale

Reliability probably went up because of the extra expense put into making sure it won't immediately fail and need to be repaired

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not saying the space data centres are a good or even viable idea, just saying you can improve the reliability significantly if you try. The space data centre planis a non starter, there's nowhere for the heat to go.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, investing in reliability will increase reliability

You can radiate the heat with a biiiig long radiator but it doesn't solve any of the other problems or improve commercial scalability

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 0 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (3 children)

You may note that this thread is talking about data centre reliability ..

Also you can't radiate heat in space ..

[–] peeteer@feddit.org 2 points 8 hours ago

The ISS has 475m^2 of ammonia filled radiators that like to disagree with you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_Active_Thermal_Control_System

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 4 points 9 hours ago

You can ONLY radiate heat in space..

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Also you can’t radiate heat in space …

How does the Sun work?

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Mostly emitting ungodly amounts of photons and radiations, as far as the earth is concerned. Is that actually cooling it though ?

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 points 20 minutes ago* (last edited 19 minutes ago)

Yes, all that emitted radiation does cool down the sun. It's why it has a mostly stable temperature instead of getting hotter infinitely.