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What problem is solved by putting a data center in orbit?

You can solve all of them far cheaper and easier on land.


Energy cost can be theoretically lower than on earth IF launch costs and additional hardware costs are low enough. Because solar is about 5x better on space than on earth. That's basically it.

For fun, I ran some numbers here.

If we wanted to launch the Stratos Hyperscale AI Data Center, which will take 40,000 acres of land, to space, we're looking at roughly 3 million tons of equipment, or 3 billion kilograms. SpaceX charges $1520 per kilogram, so it would be about $4.5T to launch all of that into orbit. We'll just assume the space station already exists and labor is free to hook it up, given that we've already hit the annual budget for the US federal government in launch fees. And it'll take about 47,000 launches to get the equipment there, or roughly 300 years.


> What problem is solved by putting a data center in orbit?

Applying standard financial metrics (do they make money? Will they ever? What valuation does that justify?) to certain companies.


The problem of the hype-train starting to cool is the only real problem it solved or will ever solve

On the opposite side of the experience, after wavefront LASIK on my very very high prescription eyes, I've had dry eyes for the past 15 years and needed glasses again about 5 years post-surgery. It's now a very mild prescription and I'd definitely say my vision is better now than it was before LASIK, but it didn't last long. I opted not to get a touch up out of fear of my eyes getting even more dry. I use eye drops 5+ times per day. My dark night vision is worse than it was before, mostly a lack of contrast. It doesn't impact driving, but being in a very dim room feels like the gamma was slightly raised.


I've never had a cpu die in the decades I've been using them. I've bought 10-20 year old computers that still work just fine. I kept my last MacBook for 9 years before I upgraded out of want for more RAM.

Most computer equipment fails quickly, otherwise you'll get a long life out of whatever it is.


It's not terrible for interactive... https://mikeveerman.github.io/tokenspeed/?rate=12&mode=text

And it should be just fine for plenty of background use cases.


You pay per impression or per click, just like in all the rest of their ads. Except these have a higher CPC since you're the only featured brand to go along with paragraphs of text about why your shoes are the best.


Shitty startup idea of the day: pay developers $0.05 per commit message to inject an ad at the end of it in a git commit hook.

[PRJ-123] Fix the prod bug. This commit brought to you by Acme!


It's so bad. This happens to me on a weekly basis:

"Get directions to <restaurant in the city I live>"

"Getting directions to <restaurant with same name 800 miles away>"


Every. Time. No, I'm not interested in something with a similar name on the other side of the planet, I'm interested in the thing that is a 10-20min. drive away from me.


Me: “navigate home”

Google: “navigating to Home Depot”

True story. Bug was closed as not reproducible.


Or they'll leave their services open to Greece. They don't have a physical presence there and aren't subject to their laws.


You don't need a physical presence to be subject to another country's laws. Disobeying a judicial order would be grounds for issuing a warrant which could easily be expanded to an international warrant for the owners of the platform.


The "judicial order" in the first place violates the first amendment, which isn't binding on Greece, but is binding on the nature of any extradition order they wish to seek in the USA.


Don't think that will happen, they will probably tell their ISP's to block access t those sites.


Greece may come after Reddit Netherlands B.V., though.


Then they will be blocked & only accessible via VPN


Cocaine and crack are also Schedule 2.


I believe cocaine is schedule 2 due to it having some limited medical uses.


Marijuana is one of the most effective things we have for some types of chronic pain and nausea.


sounds like crack should be schedule 1


Why do you need an M5 to run Cursor and a browser? Your laptop isn't doing anything in your described workflow.


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