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Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue (tech.yahoo.com)
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[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

Even if it could be made to "work", the idea that it would somehow be superior to or more economical than a terrestrial facility is madness.

[–] ammonium@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

It would make sense if there's no space left on earth to build new datacenters, but the simple solution to that is just to stop building so many datacenters.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 3 hours ago

Basically they're trying to build a data centre where the most expensive part of the data centre is the building itself which is completely not how it's supposed to work.