🚀@LumenOrbit (YC S24) is building a network of megawatt-scale data centers in space, scalable to gigawatt capacity. Congrats on the launch, @johnstonphil, @ezrafeilden, and @adioltean! ycombinator.com/launches/LmD-l…
imagine your aws account going down cause a satellite crashed into your datacener
would not have thought it's this "easy" to dump heat in a vacuum, very neat
Unless you get to 1 TW, the economics will always be favourable to build a datacenter on the ground.
How do you avoid debris impact with this big of a solar panel array?
Many of the questions in the comments are addressed in the White Paper at lumenorbit.com
how do they radiate heat out? seems unpractical to be so concentrated.
They told me it's a bad idea x.com/tom_doerr/stat…
If @SpaceX gets cost for Kg to orbit to 10$, could you build space GPU clusters? Uninterrupted solar power and -250°C cooling. If a B200 GPU + solar panels + starlink antenna is 100Kg, that's just 1000$ to get it in orbit
when i realized how compute -> energy heavy is AI. It clicked for the first time the need for a Dyson sphere. this is one of the first steps.
is it true that this would be larger than the moon in the night sky that seems not practical and you're going to piss everybody off if this is so literally nobody will be happy about that there's acres upon acres of empty land here on the ground where things can be maintained…
i have a feeling my application to this next season isn't going to make the cut
The future is infinitely more amazing than we can comprehend.
Put the data centers in space so we can't turn them off when we really really need to. Smart.
during sandy flooding we had to go with a jeep to the server farm in chelsea to pump gasoline in the electric generator while migrating the servers to a new location. Have fun doing that in space.
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