You can't disperse heat in a vacuum you fucking idiot
this post was submitted on 03 May 2025
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Keeping data centers cool is hard enough on earth. It would be completely impractical in space.
Yeah, was the first thing I thought, how the fuck do they want to cool them?
We don't want more trash up there that can't be repaired
"People are planning 10 gigawatt data centers," Schmidt said. "Gives you a sense of how big this crisis is. Many people think that the energy demand for our industry will go from 3 percent to 99 percent of total generation
I reasoned that the former Google executive might have bought Relativity Space as a means to support the development of data centers in space.
absolutely not peak of bubble type bullshit, please give microsoft-sized theranos more money, nothing weird or stupid is happening there
last time i've seen someone wanting to put compute in orbit it was cryptobros trying to avoid everyone's jurisdiction, presumably to do some financial crimes there. turns out you can get away with this on earth, so it's unnecessary
at least this operation won't leave behind any e-waste, since it all will burn down when orbit maintaining engines inevitably fail