Infrastructure

There is no way to cool them, they're obsolete in 2 years, less bandwidth than fiber, 5x the price of terrestrial datacenters and they'll interfere with terrestrial astronomy and GPS/comms sats already up there. What more could we want?

Sounds like some dumb shit a billionaire would come up with.

Yay, more space junk! What could possibly go wrong?... 🤔

This whole data center in space idea is such bullshit. It’s just another investor circle jerk.

Am I dense? Assuming they have some solution to keep them cool is there any meaningful reason you'd want them in space rather than on Earth? Is this just them wanting to stick to the Terminator script and actually have Skynet be in orbit?

Within 6 months they're all going to be mining crypto for various botnets.

This is equal as much a military projekt as starlink was from the start.

Its about puting decentralized computing into orbit where its hard to reach.

Massive datacenters on earth are a big target in case of war, even a low tech enemy can take em out.

Also is reduces latency for AI driven weapons systems on the ground, when the satelite with the computing is right overhead. This means the military ground robot can be cheaper because it needs less computing hardware, that also reduces its energy consumption.

And like starlink, all this is funded by the DoD, under the guise of a civilian program using a bilionaire as cover....

They gunna be paying out when these things come falling back to earth and take out houses and shit? 52,000 is absolutely too many to have any faith that hundreds or thousands per year won’t come down all over the planet.