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Analysis of the physics and economics of datacenters in space spectrum.ieee.org/orbital-data...

wait, so keeping your computers inside a vacuum, famously used for thermal *insulation*, makes cooling more difficult? who could’ve guessed? it’s honestly impressive both how little thinking these CEOs do themselves and the complete lack of listening to any critique from their own engineers!

What makes you think the CEOs don’t understand this? I’m pretty sure they do. It’s not like cooling in space is impossible, it’s just that you need to lift a huge radiator into orbit, which increases the cost. Whether it’s economical is not obvious without having done the calculation carefully

See chapter 13 of “The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI” by @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy for another take: the “Byzantine Premium” … “the extra value investors place on an asset they don’t understand”.