Admittedly I am neither an expert on space nor data centers, however I was under the impression that both shared the same 2 primary problems: access to equipment and waste heat management. Despite space being "cold" it actually acts more as an insulator than as a heat sink. I don't understand what adding air based signal latency and worse thermal management will do to fix their problems, not that I inherently think these problems needs solving
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Not to mention the solar radiation fucking with all the data.
And replacing worn out parts, no matter how the radiation effects them, would be hell.
And lanch costs.
The best three things we can do in space are:
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Space elevator to get things up into space with less resources than all the fuel we currently use. Just need to work out a super strong material to make the cable out of.
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Solar power stations that send it down wirelessly to earth, they can get power without all the annoying atmosphere in the way, just need to work out how to transmit power wirelessly and safely.
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A way of collecting all the debris we continue to leave floating around in space and the upper atmosphere that will eventually make it harder to have things not get hit with high speed debris.
This article is gold.
...You know, it eventually makes sense, but "eventually" as in after these CEOs are probably dead. And we're all BCI bioengineered cyber furries.
These idiots who live delusional frictionless lives have the worst fucking ideas. Aside from the morality of it; giving them decision power over all earth's resources would be a display of too-dumb-to-live if that kind of inequality and frictionless ness didn't make them monsters.¹
¹it does do that.
obviously?