Scott Francis @darkuncle@infosec.exchange
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I finally got around to reading this and boy is it good:
“If we use 200kW as a baseline and assume all of that power will be fed to GPUs, we'd need a system 12.5 times bigger, i.e., roughly 531 square metres, or about 2.6 times the size of the relevant solar array. This is now going to be a very large satellite, dwarfing the ISS in area, all for the equivalent of three standard server racks on Earth.”

Why training AI in orbit is a non-starter (orbital compute is NOT going to look like the same kinds of use cases we are currently obsessed with on the ground): taranis.ie/datacenters-in-spac

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

There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.

taranis.ie · Taranis

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