Curious to see if the experiment changes our understanding of space radiators at a certain scale for non-space exploration purposes.
> The cooling system will only be able to operate in brief spurts of about 15 minutes. After that, the TPUs need to shut down to allow the radiators to catch up.
It's a ground-targeting offensive system to be clear, not just missile defense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_s...
It's a multi-trillion dollar program, with Bezos/Musk involvement.
At best it’ll direct a lot of public funds into musk’s and trump’s pockets.
You should probably short UFO, SPCX, ASTS, RKLB, LMT, NOC, RTX etc.. if you believe that.
Orbital data centers are a stupid idea conjured up by Musk when he was taking mescaline or ketamine. Anyone with half a brain knows this doesn't make sense.
Let me know when Raytheon / BAE / Lockheed Martin / General Dynamics get in on it.
Negative on: Risk, cost, thermals, radiation, maintenance, latency, complexity, environmental.
The only win they have is making more outlandish shit to inflate value until it goes snap. One trick pony.
Even as some sort of failsafe compute for when some meteor hits the earth - already enough for a government to pay 10000x premium for it and it will bring in cash.
Obviously this is not intended to play in the same league as common enterprise datacenter.
No one is going to give a shit about compute if an asteroid hits us. If we survive it, it’ll turn into a resource war within weeks. We’ll be back to the Stone Age.
The only feasible thing I can see is jurisdiction related and that’s not something we should be encouraging. I mean we’ll just end up jamming data centres from the ground.
Lots of technologies start out looking economically infeasible, and it's only by investing in development that you're able to get a few breakthroughs. And suddenly, it's a viable technology.
If they do get the numbers to work out, the benefits seem obvious: 24/7 access to clean energy, not upsetting people who'd rather not have a datacenter next door (or in the same state), and plenty of space to scale up.
ChrisArchitect•18h ago