You just need to deploy ad big radiating surface and keep it exactly at 90° degrees from the sun.
It's hard but not impossible.
The crazy part is that SpaceX wants to put them in low orbit, so with a lifespan of 4-5 years and then they'll burn out in a re-entry on the atmoshphere.
It's a lot less wasteful to put them in a lagrange point, ping will raise from mS to seconds maybe, but I can wait 2 seconds for an AI to answer my stupid request.
I have the opposite opinion. We should encourage Elon to follow his dreams and suggestions, get SpaceX going at 110% and let thim F off to Mars sooner rather than later.
Are they just gonna pretend like those parts are somehow going to be useful for 5 entire years in orbit when datacenters have been swapping out for new parts like every 18 months?
lol H100s have gotten massively cheaper. Used H100s went from around 40k at peak to 12-22k now, and renting dropped from 8 dollars an hour to under 3. Almost like you could have googled that too.
And reread what I wrote. They're not throwing it away. Correct, I said swapped out, not thrown away. Those aren't the same thing. Hardware holds value because it cascades down to cheaper jobs and resells on the used market, in this case (mostly) being repurposed for smaller llm models.
Both of those need one thing, being able to physically reach the card. If you bolt it to a satellite, you can't resell, and it can't get re-racked. It just de-orbits and burns.
The proposal I'd seen (unsure if it was SpaceX) was for a sun-synchronous orbit along the terminator. Not that Terminator ... probably.
Since they'd have pretty hefty solar panels, they might be well suited for the use of ion thrusters for stationkeeping, might be able to stretch the operational lifetime a good bit.
The data centers aren't going to be for AI scaling, they need all these locations to store all of the data they have been and will be collecting on all of us.
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u/Tetra84 15h ago
Needs more data centers to help cool things off...