lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoDatacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.taranis.ieexternal-linkmessage-square284linkfedilinkarrow-up1663arrow-down114
arrow-up1649arrow-down1external-linkDatacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.taranis.ielemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square284linkfedilink
minus-squarevery_well_lost@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoMy understanding is that these “datacenters” would be used exclusively for model training, where latency doesn’t matter. It is still an outrageously stupid idea for a zillion other engineering reasons, though.
minus-squaregramie@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 hours agoThere’s also the issue that around once a year the two planets will be on opposite sides of the sun. Not only would you have a lag of close to 3 hours, but communication would be completely impossible for a month or so at a time.
My understanding is that these “datacenters” would be used exclusively for model training, where latency doesn’t matter.
It is still an outrageously stupid idea for a zillion other engineering reasons, though.
There’s also the issue that around once a year the two planets will be on opposite sides of the sun. Not only would you have a lag of close to 3 hours, but communication would be completely impossible for a month or so at a time.