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After Texas’ blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX? “Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now.” (arstechnica.com)
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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Yep. We already have to deal with waste heat on the ISS, where is the monstrous heat from even a traditional DC to go?

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

There's only a rack worth of compute on each satellite. There is nothing monstrous to deal with individually. The plans are to put up a very large quantity of these which will sum up to a large amount.

That probably makes training on them less effective, and that would likely remain a land based thing, but for inference, any given person probably doesn't need more than 1 rack of compute to themselves, and if they do, they'd probably be using something land based.