Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoAnybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Arguetech.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square386fedilinkarrow-up11.07Karrow-down118
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minus-squarewuffwuffwuff@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 hours agoA 20KW data center is utterly feeble, barely worth the name, by ground-based data center standards, which easily go into tens of megawatts.
minus-squareunit327@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 hours agoIt’s a single rack rather than it being a whole data center. The whole constellation of satellites is the data center. Again, I’m not advocating for this as a good idea, just saying that cooling is not the reason it is a bad one.
A 20KW data center is utterly feeble, barely worth the name, by ground-based data center standards, which easily go into tens of megawatts.
It’s a single rack rather than it being a whole data center. The whole constellation of satellites is the data center.
Again, I’m not advocating for this as a good idea, just saying that cooling is not the reason it is a bad one.