Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours agoAnybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Arguetech.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square92fedilinkarrow-up1364
arrow-up1364external-linkAnybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Arguetech.yahoo.comSome_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours agomessage-square92fedilink
minus-squareCheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 hours agoiirc the power is not very doable, You’d need hundreds of times as many solar pannels as are on the ISS to power a single modest data centre.
minus-squareNot_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 hours agoAnd at that point wouldn’t the solar panels act as a sail and fuck with the data centers orbit?
minus-squaredejected_warp_core@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoMaybe? Probably? For all I know, a solar-sail effect might help it stay in orbit.
iirc the power is not very doable, You’d need hundreds of times as many solar pannels as are on the ISS to power a single modest data centre.
And at that point wouldn’t the solar panels act as a sail and fuck with the data centers orbit?
Maybe? Probably? For all I know, a solar-sail effect might help it stay in orbit.