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Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

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  1. fwlr · · focus · HN ↗
    Yes, the physics are worse, and yes, the economics are worse, but data centers in space have the crucial advantage that they are out of range of the molotov-throwing arm of Joe Public (recently unemployed).
    1. MengerSponge · · focus · HN ↗
      They're also not controlled by pesky local regulators who are worried about losing elections. By putting them in space it becomes a federal/national defense project, and those regulators are either out of work or compromised or complicit.
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