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kevin_thibedeau | on: Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
AI in space, for all that sweet sweet latency.
bonzini | parent | next
More like for all that sweet sweet cooling capacity.

EDIT: guys, it's sarcastic... since the parent was talking about latency, cooling is something that is even worse in space than latency

kevin_thibedeau | root | parent | next
It is not easy to radiate heat in space. You need a significant extra mass budget to radiate heat from hardware that is easily cooled in less volume on the surface. These will also be too large of a capital investment to operate as disposable satellites at the bottom of LEO. They will necessarily be higher up.
bonzini | root | parent
I'm bad at sarcasm apparently.
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jordanb | root | parent | next
If putting data centers in a vacuum is a good idea why not just put them in a thermos bottle here on earth?
robotresearcher | root | parent | next
If it made the energy free, we’d take a very good look at it.
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senderista | root | parent
This has been debunked countless times. You can't cool things efficiently in space.
robotresearcher | parent
Space is not far away at all.
thephyber | root | parent
Do data centers in space still depreciate GPUs over 6 years if the datacenter falls to Earth in 3?
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