[sandworm101]

Whatever sat datacenter they biuld, it would run better/easier/faster/cheaper sitting on the ground in antarctica than it would in space, or floating on the ocean, without the launch costs. Space is useful for those activities that can only be done from space. For general computing? Not until all the empty parts of the globe are full.

This is a pump-and-dump bid for investor money. They will line up to give it to him.

[kimixa]

Yup - my example of the Sahara wasn't really a specific suggestion, so much as an example of "The Most Inconvenient Inhospitable part of the earth's surface is still much better than space for these use cases". This isn't star trek, the world doesn't match sci-fi.

It's like his "Mars Colony" junk - and people lap it up, keeping him in the news (in a not explicitly negative light - unlike some recent stories....)

[krisoft]

> Whatever sat datacenter they biuld, it will run better/easier/faster/cheaper sitting on the ground in antarctica than it will in space

That is clearly not true. How do you power the data center on antarctica? May i remind you it will be in the shadow of earth for half a year.

[idontwantthis]

Space is so expensive that you can power it pretty much any way you want and it will be cheaper. Nuclear reactor, LNG, batteries (truck them in and out if you have to). Hell, space based solar and beam it down. Why would there ever be an advantage to putting the compute in space?

[cmsj]

Get those penguins doing something productive for once, put them on treadmills!

[idontwantthis]

Or burn them in a furnace. Pretty much any way you can think of to accomplish something on earth, is vastly cheaper, easier, and faster than doing it in space.

[adrianN]

A tanker full of LNG and a turbine would probably work.

[multiplegeorges]

Kinda like the ones they are already burning in Starship to put these in space in the first place.

Anywhere on earth is better than space for this application.

[triceratops]

> How do you power the data center on antarctica?

Nuclear power plant?

[LargoLasskhyfv]

By tapping into the geothermals of the volcanoes under the ice. Otherwise nukkular.

[sandworm101]

Then you put another in the high north. Two, or six, is still cheaper than one in orbit.