I am just honestly confused. There seem to be no logical reason for it, except that it would raise the stock value of rocket producers like SpaceX and Blue Origin.

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[–] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Skynet. They want to build skynet. Go watch Terminator. I guess that's going to become a posthumous documentary.

  • Global geographic coverage with very low dependence on local infrastructure
  • Extremely difficult physical access compared with a conventional datacenter
  • Enormous distributed sensor/communications/computing network
  • Integration with Starlink's existing global communications infrastructure
  • Resilience against localized disasters or attacks
  • Direct access to governments and militaries that want autonomous communications, sensing, and computation
  • Essentially uninterruptible power source
  • Guided weapon systems, military intelligence and recon

Etc... come on. It's skynet! That's the funny thing you called a data center but really that's kind of the least of what's going on.

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