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I haven't read the article, but know a little bit. This is a thing only a person that thinks space is magic would think is a good idea. The big reason is heat. More specifically how to get rid of it. Our more realistic and earthbound data centers primarily use electricity to power cooling. How do you get rid of the heat in space? There's nothing to transfer the heat to.

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technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

This is a thing only a person that thinks space is magic would think is a good idea.

Pretty sure this is a primary basis of scientific “education”, worship of the moon/mars, etc.

It’s always been about extracting resources from rubes while actual humans suffer.

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4am@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Also, power. MFers acting like we got dilithium crystals up in here. And yeah, we probably could do Star Trek style ships if we had a way to make power in space…but we don’t, like, at ALL

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- theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Umm… We absolutely do, solar panels. Constant full exposure to the sun adds up quick, especially when they don’t even need structural support
  
  There’s plenty of problems with this idea, but power is the one strong point
  
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  - 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Perhaps you should review the power that solar panels designed for space flight can draw vs the requirements of a single GPU.
    
    We are not even close to having robust enough solar panels to make this a reality, let alone powering a datacenter full of GPUs.
    
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