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1. 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. jjulius · 1790368879 · focus · HN ↗

      >... orbital data centers...

      >... but here we are, they are flying them up to space and presumably, will start working soon.

      No, this isn't "here we are". This is not an orbital data center, this is just something that will test TPU cooling functionality in orbit for only 15 minutes at a time.

      1. logancbrown · 1790369986 · focus · HN ↗

         This argument sounds reminiscent of "this is not AGI/ASI". Arguing over definitions is arbitrary. This is an operational data-center that is processing data on TPUs. That alone qualifies as an orbital data center.

         1. rsynnott · 1790417664 · focus · HN ↗

            > The prototype is roughly the size of a refrigerator and houses four Google TPUs, operating on roughly 1 kilowatt of solar power

            Yeah, no, sorry, this is not a datacenter.

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