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Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue (tech.yahoo.com)
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[–] 44 points 3 months ago (8 children)

It's literally just taking the piss out of idiotic investors. Data Centers, AI, space, new frontier, new markets. It checks all the boxes to get idiots excited to dump money into your tech company so people keep talking about it because talking about it is what gets results. Hopefully nobody is dumb enough to actually try it, it's an absolute scam.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago*

    I mean, space construction companies are happy to try it.

    If Bezos keeps giving them money, who are they to say no? It may not even all be a waste in the long run, as it could be a "testing ground" for future scientific missions.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

    I see it as a win-win.

    Either Elom and his fellow dipshits waste a ton of cash chasing literal pie in the sky,

    Or

    A viable commercial presence in space is validated and terrestrial power needs eased.

    /S

    Can you all not even tell this or sarcasm?

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Nah, you're not jaded enough yet, it'll be used to facilitate a wealth transfer. Huge wealth management firms will tie up venture capital in financing SpaceX and BO and smaller space construction firms in a boondoggle and when it fails to materialize a profit they will pocket the proceeds and the losses will be covered by taxes and retirement accounts.

    They do this again and again. It's the kleptocracy playbook, they're just getting bigger and bolder and more in your face with it.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    I see it as a win-win.

    Except when they put up about 70x new satellites then what we currently have up there, and cause a cascade of collisions that results in nothing being able to enter orbit (including humans travelling to space).

    We're at 14k satellites.

    100k is the cascade failure limit.

    Space X is proposing one million satellites.

    Edit: my "70x" figure is very fuzzy just-woke-up early morning math. No guarantees.

    Edit 2: dang! One million divided by 14k is 71.428! I almost nailed it.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    No, you don't get it. (Good job on the math though, btw)

    Every AI gets to have one, huge Moonraker sized LLM space station. Grok Station 1, Gemini Geosynchronous, Claude Comet. Whatever. But all eggs in one huge solar-powered basket each.

    Staffed by 1 or 2 humans each. Required. By law. Armed people. Because, of course they should have guns in space.

    Then just see what happens. I bet it would be amazing.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Ok, I see your /s tag now. And no, it was not clear that you're being sarcastic, because I can't see your face or hear your voice. It's the reason Poe's law is a thing.

    Staffed by 1 or 2 humans each. Required. By law. Armed people. Because, of course they should have guns in space.

    Better pitch: just put tons of people in the space station and they can type the "AI" responses!

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