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  • Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

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  • If we did make something like that, could you even put it on a disposable dish meant to burn up in the atmosphere after 5ish years? There's already uncertainty about all the dishes burning up and long term impacts, but a mini nuclear reactor?

  • Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

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  • All they're sending up is 1 server rack. 125kw avg, 150kw peak.

    Radiator needs to be ~twice as big as ISS, but we probably have improved their efficiency in recent years so maybe not twice?

  • Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

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  • The goal is that its single digits millions to fly it up there. In practice, it'll be 10s of millions to start.

  • Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

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  • Around or less than twice the size of the ISS radiator.

  • Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

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  • Starship is huge. I dont know how tightly they can fold these expected dishes, but by weight, they can amd will do 60 starlink v3, and itd be 50 datacenter dishes equivalent. How many they can actually launch is going to depend on how well the solar and radiator folds down, so it might be a volume issue vs weight where they cant launch with the max weight capabilities of the ship.

  • Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

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  • Whatever the end latency is, it'll be higher than starlink as these are going to be in a sun synchronous orbit and they dont talk to earth, they talk via starlink.

    So you'll have to go up to starlink, then laser link the shortest route to the nearest available dish, then back.

  • Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

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  • Im seeing the ISS needs to reject 70kw with a max ability of 84kw. The datacenter dishes will be between 125 and 150, so around double or less.

  • Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

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  • It will be far bigger. Its mostly solar panels.

  • Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

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  • You think they have people repairing and doing maintenance on starlink?

  • Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

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  • The datacenters are only a little bigger than a v3 starlink. It's 1 rack of compute, around 125kw avg 150kw peak. The biggest part is the solar array.

  • Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

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  • They are in a sun synchronous orbit and the radiators will be positioned for the least contact while the solar panels will be the most.

  • Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

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  • A big radiator. Yes they know how to do it, they already do it at a smaller scale with starlink. No its not as big as people seem to think (but it is big). The solar panels are bigger at least 2-3x, maybe more.

    Also the mass to orbit / size for this does not work without starship working.

  • Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses

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  • I could get requiring a subscription for server based AI features, but they say they tested it in airplane mode and it worked because it's on device, that's seriously fucked. That should never have a limit.

  • US Supreme Court just blew up EU-US Data Transfers

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  • Shits just getting started. This is just going to be one of many dominoes from this ruling to the ultimate demise of the USA, even if they do get rid of Trump.

    This + Citizens United + President can't be charged for official acts = game over.

    The presidency is no longer trust worthy, and now every US agency is no longer trust worthy.

    FDA: The drug isn't safe

    Trump: Approve it

    FDA: The drug isn't safe

    Trump: You're fired

    FDA: The drug is the BEST DRUG WE'VE EVER SEEN!

    Every single agency.

  • Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short

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  • If only there were someone that could’ve told us this was a bad idea beforehand!”

    If they asked the same AI if it was bad advice it probably would have said yes, even though before it said it could 🤣

  • Lenovo Warns PC RAM Prices Will "Never" Go Back to Normal

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  • I do hope that all the LLM companies have research teams that are investigating alternatives to LLMs as we know it today, rather than just how to make the existing LLMs more efficient/better.

    The whole technology of how LLMs work seems flawed to the core, e.g hallucinations.

  • Epic Games CEO says it’s ‘really irresponsible’ of Steam to make studios disclose AI use | VGC - 25th Jun 2026

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  • This is such a terrible take.

    Just because AI was used doesnt mean there's wasn't immense amount of human hours put into it.

    These flags cover more than 'the entire game was vibe coded'

  • 2003-era DDR2 memory prices jump up to 60% — AI-driven DRAM shortage reaches the oldest standard still in production

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  • 😭

  • 2003-era DDR2 memory prices jump up to 60% — AI-driven DRAM shortage reaches the oldest standard still in production

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  • So my jokes about my old ddr3 memory sitting in a box being worth a nice used car is becoming reality?