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Is there literally any justification for this or have they just completely lost their minds
Well, there's "Imagine how cool that would be, bro".
And they are kinda right, if you imagine it a fair bit cooler than it would actually be…, bro.
Other than that, you'd have to pretty much disregard anything learned from this. And you'd have to disregard the entire issue of getting rid of heat, powering a power hungry system that's in earths shadow half the time, maintaining a server farm that's constantly 500-1500km away from any technician and also in a vacuum, along with managing a solar flares, 500ms of latency and bits of sand traveling at 10km/s hitting your servers - oh and your boss being on drugs half the time.
Doesn't sound very "cool" to cook your servers with waste heat in the vacuum of space lmao
It wouldn't have to be in the earth shadow half the time. A highly eccentric orbit wouldn't have that issue. It would have the issue is constantly changing latency, but maybe at the slower speeds AI works at that wouldn't be a concern?
some investors think it sounds cool so you get a short-term profit before the whole idea falls apart. or something like that.