• jj4211@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Remember, Musk also proposes a combination. That AI will, for whatever stupid ass reason, become predominantly space based and that they would be having hundreds of Starship launches a month…

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      20 hours ago

      That’s another Elon BS special. Dissapating heat in space is very difficult because you can only do it via radiation, which is weak.

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        20 hours ago

        Then there’s the massive amounts of heavy metals that get deposited in the upper atmosphere when the satellite datacenters ultimately reenter and burn up. Good bye ozone layer.

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        20 hours ago

        Yeah, there’s a lot of stupidity at the concept.

        If I recall, his rationalization was that a particular company was backordered on parts to build natural gas generators until 2030… So naturally it’s so much easier to get to hundreds of starship launches a month and all the attendant solar and radiators and crap…