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Seems to me that maintenance would be significant.

The advantage of datacenters in space is that the peasants can't break in and sabotage your equipment. Only a very small set of nations would have the capability of blowing it up or somehow jamming its communications.

It literally only makes sense if you're a billionaire worried about the growing unpopularity of your AI datacenters, or you're using it for war and don't want it easily bombed...

SpaceX IPO happened to keep xAi afloat.

Servers in space topic exist because of this very reason.

It is a non subject

I skimmed the title for a sec and thought "what's wrong with orbital stations?" before realizing the utter stupidity that graced my vision.

Just billionaire psychosis like where ai got to where it is to begin with. Obviously they’re all visionaries leading the world to a better place…

Sadly the latency involved in transmitting and receiving from orbit makes many terrestrial applications fail... The speed of light is a fixed constant.

When gaming, we can always see the idiots running on starlink...the lag is visible and makes them sitting ducks.. ;-)

Or they are just ignorant of how heat dissipation and vacuums work.

At least their water consumption would do down. Let's do it, shoot the tech bros up there with them. Let's even overshoot the orbit and make them disappear in the darkness.

Ignoring all of the disadvantages of datacenters in space, what are any of the advantages?

If they build a data center on land and an identical one floating on the ocean, what is the difference in how much heat they emit when I throw thermite grenades at them?

don't need to think much about this crackpot idea.

where would the heat dissipate? that just ends this topic.

A data center in space would be damn near impossible to cool.

At medium earth orbit the minimum delay will be about 67ms (250 ms to 600+ ms for geostationary orbits) for LEO it is 25-50 ms. The average ground network ping on a good day is 1ms-20ms.

I’m far more concerned with the suggested floating datacenters. Just dumping more waste heat into the ocean. WCGW.

I think they're a great idea. They don't use land, don't continuously use water, and don't pollute our land and waterways. And, as an added bonus, they're extremely expensive and a money-pit.

Imagine launching that scale of infrastructure, loaded full of Nvidia chips that'll be outdated in like 2 years.

At minimum how would the heat be managed? Also as someone else said, just getting the material from the earth into orbit is currently possible but why?

The article you posted from Futurism(Via Yahoo News) reference a YouTube video as it's source which is in itself is a follow up to IEEE Spectrum article.

I believe watching the original video or reading the actual article will provide a better value.