This is a YC company trying to build data centers in space. The pitch is mostly: solar is more efficient in space, space is cold, and data center size is effectively unlimited.
I imagine some things need to be adapted to run in a vacuum and at those temperatures, but maybe not.
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Data centers consume more energy than bitcoin miners but maybe it doesn’t matter in space
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42 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 5 Sep
Space hype incoming
interesting idea though
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138 sats \ 1 reply \ @freetx 5 Sep
Space hype incoming
Quantum computers running massive AI agents written in Rust....
seems like HN founders could scam lots of seed money with that pitch
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 5 Sep
Quantum computers running massive AI agents written in Rust....
….that mint monkey JPEGs on carbon-negative blockchains in space
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how high do they go i wonder? being above the atmosphere would the GPUs be more susceptible to data corruption from stray cosmic particles?
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