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Space datacenters are such a dumb idea. We already have problems keeping spacecraft cool, and unless they send people up there with the datacenters who the heck is going to do maintenance? GPUs need upgrading and hard drives fail
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> unless they send people up there with the datacenters who the heck is going to do maintenance

A fleet of special ships for orbital commute and future generation Optimus, no doubt.

OR - they follow the same approach as the current fleet of Starlink satellites. Probably have some redundancy baked in (eg 10 operational GPUs with 3 backup). They have rich data around hardware expectancy in space. Can’t hurt to have that for simulations.




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