Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.

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• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, but that’s the point. It’s a boondoggle. Grifters need a bottomless hole for marks to pour money down.

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• WraithGear@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  i believe that cooling in space is EVEN HARDER then cooling in atmosphere. something about a near vacuum being a terrible, terrible thermal conductor

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• the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I like how the absurdity scale just keeps going up when all we gotta do is kill like 400 people. Simple solutions.

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• Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Billionaires won’t rest until they end life on Earth. A lot of these psychopaths believe in the big replacement. They are morons having no clue that they too will die.

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    TBH the billionaires might survive along with other cockroaches. They’ll at least outlast the plebs above ground…

    • aol.com/…/person-builds-bunkers-billionaires-invi…
    • marketwatch.com/…/jeff-bezos-makes-extravagant-re…
    • therealdeal.com/…/how-a-nondescript-inland-develo…
    • www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/…/ar-AA1RrOQV

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    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Remember they have to hire people to build those, and we will find them and destroy them before life ends. Those fucks don’t get to live.

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• JayTreeman@fedia.io ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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• atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Anyone else feel like they are only floating this idea so that data centers in neighborhoods driving up the cost of electricity and polluting everything looks better by comparison?

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They don’t need their bullshit grift to look good. They’re going to build it anyway.

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  • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Until someone has to go up to unplug it and plug it back in again. 😁

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    • ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I propose we adopt the space data center idea, as long as the billionaire owner is the one who has to go maintain it.

      They could just pull up on their bootstraps until they’re in orbit.

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• testfactor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  To clarify, the article is just saying that it’s wildly unfeasible and prohibitively expensive.

  They’re not saying it’s dangerous or going to harm people in some way.

  I feel like some people may get the wrong idea from the headline.

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s absolutely harmful to waste resources on worthless grifting at the expense of the planet and people suffering from very real deprivation.

    That’s why it’s the same people promoting both the grift and the deprivation.

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    • testfactor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Sure, but that’s not what the article is saying, to be clear.

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  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You mean they didn’t mention that the laws of physics make data transfer to and from orbit an absolute PitA and that no one would sit around for that long?

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