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youngtaff
39 days ago
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Musk's SpaceX applies to launch 1M satellites into...
The whole idea of orbital data centres just doesn’t seem to pan out… the heat management issues are immense and the bandwidth is never going to be as fast as good old fibre
BurningFrog
39 days ago
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The big advantage is 24/7 unblocked solar energy.
youngtaff
38 days ago
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It’s not 24/7 — depending on the orbit they’ll spend significant time in the earth’s shadow
BurningFrog
37 days ago
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I forget the term in the press release, but the plan really is to place them in orbits that are always out of the earth’s shadow.
I assume that means they're pretty far out, which is OK for AI training.
bigyabai
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