• phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    An utterly unworkable, absurdly costly idea. I’m sure the same investor-lemmings who buy heavily into IPOs which have no viable business model will fall for this too.

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      13 hours ago

      Yep. We already have to deal with waste heat on the ISS, where is the monstrous heat from even a traditional DC to go?

      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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        8 hours ago

        There’s only a rack worth of compute on each satellite. There is nothing monstrous to deal with individually. The plans are to put up a very large quantity of these which will sum up to a large amount.

        That probably makes training on them less effective, and that would likely remain a land based thing, but for inference, any given person probably doesn’t need more than 1 rack of compute to themselves, and if they do, they’d probably be using something land based.