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		adastra22 14 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Data centers in space makes no sense They are not. xAI/SpaceX is talking about millions of satellites in sun-synchronous orbit.

nosianu 14 days ago [–]

Yeah, the cost of doing it on the moon would be even more astronomical. Then there also is the three second of round-trip latency to consider (ca. 2.6 s just the signal, but processing adds a bit more).

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