▲ 1085 ▼ Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue (tech.yahoo.com) submitted 2 months ago by Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 403 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] petersr@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago (6 children) What about the latency hit getting data back to earth? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (5 children) LEO isn’t that far away. StarLink has quite good latency. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children) Whatever the end latency is, it'll be higher than starlink as these are going to be in a sun synchronous orbit and they dont talk to earth, they talk via starlink. So you'll have to go up to starlink, then laser link the shortest route to the nearest available dish, then back. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago (1 child) Heh yeah you’d get daily latency variation. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago Made me think of this, dish is far away right now! Obviously not that slow, but still haha. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 child) You'd have to constantly adjust its orbit. Something that huge with massive radiators and solar panels is going to get a lot of drag. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago 1000km is still considered LEO and would take hundreds of years to decay. At this distance, you’d add 3ms of latency, which isn’t nothing but acceptable for most applications. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (5 children) LEO isn’t that far away. StarLink has quite good latency. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children) Whatever the end latency is, it'll be higher than starlink as these are going to be in a sun synchronous orbit and they dont talk to earth, they talk via starlink. So you'll have to go up to starlink, then laser link the shortest route to the nearest available dish, then back. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago (1 child) Heh yeah you’d get daily latency variation. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago Made me think of this, dish is far away right now! Obviously not that slow, but still haha. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 child) You'd have to constantly adjust its orbit. Something that huge with massive radiators and solar panels is going to get a lot of drag. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago 1000km is still considered LEO and would take hundreds of years to decay. At this distance, you’d add 3ms of latency, which isn’t nothing but acceptable for most applications. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children) Whatever the end latency is, it'll be higher than starlink as these are going to be in a sun synchronous orbit and they dont talk to earth, they talk via starlink. So you'll have to go up to starlink, then laser link the shortest route to the nearest available dish, then back. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago (1 child) Heh yeah you’d get daily latency variation. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago Made me think of this, dish is far away right now! Obviously not that slow, but still haha. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago (1 child) Heh yeah you’d get daily latency variation. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago Made me think of this, dish is far away right now! Obviously not that slow, but still haha. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago Made me think of this, dish is far away right now! Obviously not that slow, but still haha. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 child) You'd have to constantly adjust its orbit. Something that huge with massive radiators and solar panels is going to get a lot of drag. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago 1000km is still considered LEO and would take hundreds of years to decay. At this distance, you’d add 3ms of latency, which isn’t nothing but acceptable for most applications. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago 1000km is still considered LEO and would take hundreds of years to decay. At this distance, you’d add 3ms of latency, which isn’t nothing but acceptable for most applications. permalink fedilink source parent