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Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1

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logancbrown · 1790368439 · focus · HN ↗
Genuine question: why are there so many people up-in-arms on orbital data centers? Like they have a personally vested interest in ensuring their opinions on failure are correct? There are many people on HN that despise it and say it will not and will never work, but here we are, they are flying them up to space and presumably, will start working soon.
1. rsynnott · 1790417575 · focus · HN ↗
  > but here we are, they are flying them up to space and presumably, will start working soon.
  From the article:
  > Google will run Gemini models on the TPUs for testing, but they won’t be able to run continuously. The cooling system will only be able to operate in brief spurts of about 15 minutes. After that, the TPUs need to shut down to allow the radiators to catch up.
  I mean, ah, define 'working'.

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