• MrSoup@lemmy.zip
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    21 hours ago

    Sun power for data centers? How do they transfer generated energy? Or are satellites themselves data centers? :P

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      20 hours ago

      Indeed, the plan for SpaceX is to literally launch computers into orbit to have orbiting data centers.

      No, I cannot explain why this seems like a good idea to anybody. Beyond, “Elon Musk likes juicing his stock by announcing useless sci-fi plans that won’t come true”

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          9 hours ago

          Don’t think the goal is to get something functional, but to get money for it. The hardware would become outdated in short order even if you could overcome the heating issue.

          He will just raise money in this grift and then run away with it, like literally every other grift he’s ever done. He’s never cared about it being realistic. Note the extreme lack of people on both the moon and mars, despite his promises of a colony in the early 202Xs. Note how his cars still don’t have FSD.

          He’s just a liar.

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      21 hours ago

      They use microwave emitters to “beem” the power to the surface, where it is captured by antennas.

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        21 hours ago

        I’m old enough to have played SimCity and there was a satellite power supply that only sometimes would miss the receiver and incinerate a swath of the city. Good times