Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoAnybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Arguetech.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square334fedilinkarrow-up1957
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minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·20 hours agoFor scale. roughly a two server datacenter needs to have solar and radiator about as big as the ISS. Which is possible, but insane. However insane plain old datacenter is, just tons more insane.
minus-squareunit327@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoThat simply isn’t true, the video I linked explains everything clearly, for a 20kw satellite the cooling area is needed very modest. Still not a great idea and I am not advocating for it, but people need to stop fighting bullshit with bullshit and start fighting it with truth.
For scale. roughly a two server datacenter needs to have solar and radiator about as big as the ISS.
Which is possible, but insane. However insane plain old datacenter is, just tons more insane.
That simply isn’t true, the video I linked explains everything clearly, for a 20kw satellite the cooling area is needed very modest.
Still not a great idea and I am not advocating for it, but people need to stop fighting bullshit with bullshit and start fighting it with truth.