They're not putting up just one satellite. It's going to be a constellation. The constellation as a whole will be equivalent to a data center.

Also, it won't cost them millions of dollars to launch a single satellite. That's why this project is paired up with Starship development, the two go hand in hand. Starship makes the launches cheap, Starmind gives Starship the scale of demand a ship like that needs for its economics to work.

The actual Starmind satellites will have 175kW of compute on them, Scott made that video before the specs were released so he assumed a minimum package. But all of this scales linearly, if you double the power usage you just double the size of the solar panels and double the size of the radiators. If a 20kW satellite works then you can bolt ten of them together and get a 200kW satellite that works too.

The only people inconvenienced by "poisoning" your old comments are actual humans who come across old threads through Google or whatever in search of helpful information.

When Reddit sells data to AI trainers or whatever, they sell their internal database. It's got the deleted content in it still. So do the public archives that third parties have collected and made available as torrents.

Some people use Windows.

I suppose one could, They're going with 160 m² radiators (double sided of course) so they won't need heat pumps, though, I guess they found that to be a better tradeoff of mass and complexity.

In another comment regarding these books, you said:

They can keep both for all I care, tbh.

So it really seems you're just insisting on this because you think it will make things harder for them. You don't care about the books or who they go to in the end.

Here's the usual video I use for this issue, a walk-through of the equations on how things cool in space where Scott Manley runs the numbers and shows that it's perfectly reasonable with a modest radiator panel.

What temperature are you assuming for the radiators? At 80° Celsius (353 Kelvin) they can do 880 watts per square meter. And bear in mind that radiator panels are double-sided, so that makes 1760 watts per square meter of dedicated panel. 80 degrees is what these chips are meant to run at, if you wanted to you could use a heat pump to make the radiator panels even hotter and they'd get much more efficient - according to the Stefan–Boltzmann law thermal radiation goes up proportional to the fourth power of the temperature. Shouldn't be necessary here though.

But donate them to whom? The books were one step away from the pulpers when they bought them in the first place, who's going to take them that values them more than that?

Also, these companies are not charities. What do they gain out of all that extra expense?

Oh, I'd thought he'd died already.

Ah well. Soon.

Here on social media we get to ensure that we only associate with other "normal" people. By our definition of "normal."

And then we get shocked when we discover that large numbers of people out there are not, in fact, "normal." Often when an election happens.

We would have anyway. One of the common symptoms of dementia is obsession.

The thing the headlines keep skipping over in pursuit of outrage-clicks is that this is how you scan books in bulk. The spine is removed and the pages are fed through a high-speed scanner in sequence.

And the books that these companies are scanning this way are not "rare" in the sense of Gutenberg bibles or first-editions of famous works. These are books that have been sitting untouched in libraries or warehouses for decades because nobody wants them and their alternative fate is simply to be pulped and recycled. AI companies aren't interested in quality, they're interested in quantity. It would indeed be nice if they'd release the results of doing these scans to the public, of course, but that's where copyright raises its head to ruin everything. They're just following the law, unfortunately.

I'm all for getting more books scanned and uploaded to Anna's Archive. But that's a separate issue.