Why Jeff Bezos Is Probably Wrong Predicting AI Data Centers In Space
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Why Jeff Bezos Is Probably Wrong Predicting AI Data Centers In Space
https://www.chaotropy.com/why-jeff-bezos-is-probably-wrong-predicting-ai-data-centers-in-space/
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Oh, the inability to efficiently dissipate heat, high levels of hard rads, extreme cost of creation and maintenance, including vibration hardening delicate components, small space requirements, lack of easy access to water and power, high latency and the everpresent threat of hard vacuum tipped the author off that the tech bro moron that built a glorified book store into a ginormous company cult is blowing smoke?
I wish the tech morons actually loved space, and not just cosplaying an astronaut
>”These giant training clusters, those will be better built in space, because we have solar power there, 24/7. There are no clouds and no rain, no weather,”
The idea that the cost and complexity of putting a data center in space is justified because solar energy is continuously availible is definitely a take. Is having continuously produced energy currently a problem for data centers? I was unaware.
>”It’s already happened with weather and communication satellites,” he said. “The next step is data centres, then other kinds of manufacturing.”
Yes, that’s why they’re up there, the continuous solar energy. No other reason whatsoever.
Manufacturing? Really? Can anyone do the math to figure out how long a say 1m x 1m solar panel would need to operate to equate to just the amount of energy neededed to get 1kg of material into space? Not even anything done on it, just to get it up there.
And this is one of our supposed intellectual leaders?
And this is the one tech bro who supposedly has some understanding of the laws of physics given his undergrad. Imagine how dumb the takes of the others must be.
Illusions of grandeur is what people would call such ideas when they’d come from a layperson.
It’s idiotic. Heat can’t escape without air, so you’d need radiators the size of cities. One pebble punches holes through them, repairs need rockets, and every fix adds more mass, more power, more heat. Radiation scrambles the chips, shielding makes the pile heavier, and the whole thing still bakes itself. Meanwhile the signal lag ruins AI training; your GPUs wait around like bored kids. Do the same job on land for a tenth the cost and none of the grief. Space data centers are a money bonfire for people who flunked physics.