as much as underwater datacenter, extremely high cost despite the ocean being able to cooldown datacenters fast. also these large LLM have never overcome one major flaw, There is no profit generation in the industry.
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Seems to me that maintenance would be significant.
Maybe but also maybe they would hire my uncle and then he could go to space which would be pretty cool.
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They're utterly impracticable and inefficient. Things cool very slowly in the vacuum of space.
They want to put them where normal people cannot damage them.
It's so expensive. Putting data centers in bunkers or caves is more reasonable. (There actually are data centers like this).
Proton's primary servers are stuffed in a cold war bunker in the Alps, for example.
Orbital politicians, and billionaires are a hella cool idea though
Which planet would they be orbiting?
Saturn, they'd fit right in with all the other frozen orbital bodies in the ring.
Planet Hell
The doom planet.
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And yet the IPO of SpaceX was justified with the presumed future success of its space-based data center program.
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For the cost of one orbital data centre you could probably build 10 terrestrial data centres, bribe literally everyone involved in the contrustion to pretend that they built it in space, buy an island, fake your death, and spend the rest of your life off grid.
well atleast its not draining like 3 oceans and half of the power grid right?
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Could you imagine being in orbit during an AI datacenter kessler collapse, and just getting smoked by an rtx 5070 travelling at mach fuck?
No credit for partial answers, maggot. This is an RTX 5070 Ti with 16G of GDDR7. It was shot out of a grok datacenter in heliosynchronous orbit at 1.3% the speed of light. You know what that means? That means Kevin O'Leary is the most dangerous son of a bitch in space.
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