• Avicenna@programming.dev
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    12 hours ago

    I don’t think the point is to really build datacenters in space. The point is to convince investors that it can be done in a profitable manner so some people can create a fake businesses out of it and siphon money off the system. Much like the same as trying to convince investors that LLM + more money = AGI

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      I also wonder if this is an entire red herring. There are increasing reasons for more compute in space, such as to pre-filter sensor data.

      Is it to naive/optimistic to think no one is actually looking for a space datacenter to compute terrestrial loads, but they recognize the need for processing space loads?

      • architect@thelemmy.club
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        1 hour ago

        See now you all are thinking.

        The rich wouldn’t tell us this shit if it wasn’t going to be used as some spin/distraction whatever it is.

    • kossa@feddit.org
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      3 hours ago

      It’s a legal thing. No (real) jurisdiction. In space nobody will shut down Grok generating kiddo porn. It’s basically the precursor for Epstein Island 2.0.