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In a blog post, Musk said the acquisition was warranted because global electricity demand for AI cannot be met with “terrestrial solutions,” and Silicon Valley will soon need to build data centers in space to power its AI ambitions.

This dumb fuck. Unfortunately, his boosters will be all-in on this messaging. Whatever.

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[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because we common folk need fresh water down here. They can innovate their own vapor chamber, the ISS is being cooled without water already.

[–] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You're doing mental gymnastics to make orbital server farms seem less stupid than they are. Why?

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

You do realise it's already being planned for execution right?

[–] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 52 minutes ago (1 children)

Are you rage baiting? I'm starting to like Lemmy's block feature but I don't know if you're doing this on purpose or by accident.

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 18 minutes ago

As michevious as it might be, here's a paper explaining the potential of using solar to run TPUs https://research.google/blog/exploring-a-space-based-scalable-ai-infrastructure-system-design/