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Jeff Bezos envisions space-based data centers in 10 to 20 years — could allow for natural cooling and more effective solar power (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Forget cooling and maintenance; let's call that engineering minutia.

...Does he realize how mind-bendingly difficult sending a pound (much less tons) to orbit is?

This reminds me of how Musk and his evangelists talk about colonizing mars, when it would be orders of magitude cheaper and easier to, say... live in the mariana trench.

Or under the antarctic ice sheet.

Or in Kilauea's open lava pit.

Those would all be cheaper spots for datacenters.

I mean, it's fine to not understand the 'tyrrany of the rocket equation,' but please, let people who do make the plans instead.