There is no benefit to putting data centers in space versus the giant cost that you would incur by doing so.
Can people please try and use their fucking brains for a second?
Have you considered that people smarter than you think it is plausible?
I know many people smarter than me, plenty of them who have spent careers building data centers, and not one of them think this is plausible.
You should consider whether people smarter than the average investor are pulling a fast one.
I don't doubt spacex can fail at this.
I also don't doubt we are fairly close to making this plausible.
> plenty of them who have spent careers building data centers
Famously, plenty of people who have spent careers building rockets would swear that reusable rockets would absolutely never work.
Maybe you should doubt that. There's literally no reason to think this is plausible besides some hype merchants' say-so.
Excluding Spacex:
Nvidia, Google, China, European Commission, Blue Origin
And this being HN, a YC funded company has put a single GPU rack in space and demonstrated training a reasonable sized model on it.
But yeah, it's all hype, sure.
I wish I had your confidence about everything!
Please come back to reality.
Instead you put your confidence in Elon, who has zero expertise in this area?
No, I put confidence my ability to do a web search, pretty rare skill nowadays ;)
You'll see that none of these are Elon/spacex, hopefully?
https://medium.com/@cognidownunder/google-just-announced-the...
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/starcloud
https://www.informationweek.com/it-infrastructure/lunar-data...
https://ascend-horizon.eu/
https://www.axiomspace.com/orbital-data-center
There is no benefit to putting data centers in space versus the giant cost that you would incur by doing so.
Can people please try and use their fucking brains for a second?