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Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue (tech.yahoo.com)
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[–] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

For scale. roughly a two server datacenter needs to have solar and radiator about as big as the ISS.

Which is possible, but insane. However insane plain old datacenter is, just tons more insane.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    That simply isn’t true, the video I linked explains everything clearly, for a 20kw satellite the cooling area is needed very modest.

    Still not a great idea and I am not advocating for it, but people need to stop fighting bullshit with bullshit and start fighting it with truth.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    For reference, a GB300 server is now at about 8.5kw for a single server. A fully populated NVL8 server is about 15kw. Looking online, looks like the ISS is about up to 90kw, so I guess I'm off and the actual number is something like 6 to 10 of these servers per ISS scale facility.

    I would still argue this is a crazy overhead for what they would now consider meager capacity, with, luckily for nVidia, a pretty hard deadline where the very expensive equipment burns up without potential for extended lifetime use.

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