Elon should do I it. Really. Either we get to see what noone understands yet: How economically viable server cooling at scale in space looks like or we see Elon faceplant financially yet again.
Either way, we win.
Just a reminder, while they speak of data centers in space, their proposed satellite is actually more like a single server rack in space.
It’s always misleading, you can’t even trust their choice of words.
Democrats immediately win three of the four seats on the Moon and sweep the Sky Council.
We can also launch Elmo into space and… Well, just forget about him, good riddance
Instead of shipping an entire data center to space, let’s ship a single Elon instead.
This leaves more room for fish to thrive.
Probably move them to a data center friendly state?
Idaho, please. Put them all in Idaho.
>Put them in Idaho
>Grow potatoes beside them
>AI gains sentience and actual intelligence
>Thinks potatoes are God
Potaitoes
What if…… we didn’t put them anywhere
Vacuum does not vent heat.
This has been a PSA.
Vacuum does not vent heat.
my Dyson gets pretty warm.
Begrudging upvote
No but hot things will just radiate it away, regardless of vacuum.
Yes, but the infrared radiators for a single megawatt are apx the size of 4 tennis courts. Until there’s a space elevator, that’s a tremendous amount of resources to get into orbit.
Yea, because the only resources in the entire universe are only on our planet. There’s absolutely none out there where there’s little to no gravity well to fight against right?
Sure, but we’re not doing anything to mine or manufacture in space.
And we can’t, until we do.
True enough.
I eagerly await OP’s space mining operations, which Elon has promised to start doing for a decade but simply hasn’t because he just didn’t wanna.
Still kinda blows my mind that a ship could accelerate to 1c and still not be able to use cooling fins, aircraft on earth use it as part of the design process
no worries about the temperature if the ship collides with a spec of spacedust :)
Please, waste your money on something that needs several football fields big heat radiators per gigawatt. And cannot replace a hard drive without launching a technician into space.
Easy, just tell the AI to change the harddrive!
I want Elon Musk in space, aimlessly drifting around.
I would chip in $25 to send him to space, unless it was a two-way ticket.
Hilarious prank though. Send him into space, and then “accidentally” forget some of the heatshield.
Save money on weight, just send his head up.
Elmo will have to move to Floriderp.
kinda hard to do that when he invested so much time and money on blexas
lol let him waste his money on an impossible technology
He doesn’t waste his money on his companies. He wastes tax payer funding on them. And when that started drying up, he took it to the stock market, convinced the exchange to fast track adding his company to being eligible for indexes, and then wasted our 401ks on it. He’s the ultimate con man.
Yes but that only lasted weeks before collapsing. The end is coming, he is now trying to roll Twitter into spacex. It’s where his real riches are. When it eventually goes, so does his money
That’s what he does. When one company starts having issues, his other company will bail it out or outright buy it. It’s a constant shell game.
I’m hoping for a push by the people to pressure the Democrats to defund Musk. All his tech is shit and hurts people.
With Trump, he got no-bids.
Unfortunately there are still a ton of people that think he is some genius engineer and visionary. I would love for him to get cut off, I just don’t have high hopes for it. Ideally he is cut off and sent to prison or sent back to South Africa.
And kill us all by destroying the ozone layer again? No thank you.
I’m not sure what it has to do with the ozone, please explain.
One of the major environmental issues with launching mega-constellations is the environmental impact of their end-of-life deorbiting. As satellites reenter the atmosphere, they create aluminum oxide particulate that has a negative impact on the ozone layer.
Because, of course they do. We always have to find ways to destroy our beautiful planet, as if a new Earth-like planet is just a skip away.
Don’t you worry your poor little mind…the same folks destroying everything for their wealth are working on magic space ships to get us to earth 2, environmental bugaloo.
Thanks
Has anyone actually tried a genuine rollout of data centers? Eg no lying about bringing in jobs, no cheating the energy grid, no building loud data centers near homes, don’t paint people as idiot luddites for opposing AI.
I wonder how different sentiments about data centers would be if the people building them weren’t pathological. Probably not good, but having a punkass showman leading the way seems like self-sabotauge.
People have been building them normally for decades. They just used to be regular industrial buildings in industrial-zoned areas and required only minor grid upgrades.
The scale of the new stuff makes it pathological. You cant be a good guy if your hyperscaler is the size of a small town and uses as much power and water as a state.
Kind of a double fuck in these rollouts at the moment. 1. Is the reckless build out. All the things you mentioned. 2. Is the explicit goal of using to shoot working class power, and create “algorythimc governace” and “ubiquitous policing”.
Its a sinister combo
In countries where the government is responsible and new data centers have to go through the regulatory consent process and address the public’s concerns around noise levels, water usage and grid prices there is still opposition from the public. I think* because of how big of an issue it is in America. America is a megaphone to a lot of the world so the issues spill over and the average person doesnt really seem to know what they’re mad about.
This is how it was most of the time for decades before the LLM/transformer model FOMO speculative investment
As someone from a highly industrial area, it was not.
Skynet, the clue is in the name.
For a man who keeps talking about colonizing Mars, Musk seems remarkably surprised that you can’t permanently colonize a state’s politics. Spending hundreds of millions on campaigns didn’t come with a warranty, and moving SpaceX again won’t change how voting works.
I doubt voting would be allowed on Mars if Musk gets his way.
oh no it would be allowed. but it would be designed similar to spaceX’s share policy. Voting is allowed as long as he personally either is indifferent or wants the change, but the second he doesn’t want the change his single vote will override the majority.
An utterly unworkable, absurdly costly idea. I’m sure the same investor-lemmings who buy heavily into IPOs which have no viable business model will fall for this too.
Underwater data centers are also not that feasible, but they are a lot more feasible than putting one in space.
Yep. We already have to deal with waste heat on the ISS, where is the monstrous heat from even a traditional DC to go?
