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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago

And Bezos apparently…

These chucklefucks are just trying to get some sucker… er I mean investor to fund the whole thing so their respective space companies can do the job.

And after doing to some very cursorary research other issues like…

Radiation and reliability - apparently cosmic radiation is a bitch
Lifecycle costs - I should have thought about this one. It's not like when a drive dies in space you just drive down to the DC to replace it. And not mention we recycle out compute about every 5-6 years or so.
Connection - somebody mention this already in the thread but yeah you ain't hanging a fiber cable to a satellite