2026-11-02 07:05 UTC
Why would you need an orbiting data center? Is there a lot of call for low latency llm on the ISS or military satellites?
Is there any particular reason it needs to avoid jurisdiction?
I just can’t think of any benign reason for one.
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@supersquirrel@lemmy.ca 2026-11-02 07:19
There are better reasons to send techbro billionaires on oneway trips to space.
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@CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-11-02 08:57
The only “benefits” for Google (or whichever evil company) is that they don’t have to fight the public for land, and they can tell their idiotic investors that they’re doing something in space. Everything else is a drawback. The lack of easy heat dissipation means they can’t cram much into it, and likely have to manage load to not overheat the hardware. It’s not repairable if something on the hardware level dies. LLMs already make no money, and sending these to space means it loses even more (like the article states).