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Because a LOT of people are missing the point: No, Elon Musk is NOT serious about putting a million data centres into orbit. It can't work: laws of physics say "nope". But SpaceX is expected to go pub
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I loathe Felon Muscovite but one thing that he does not need to talk up is his space orbital capabilities.
He does about 150 orbital launches a year, which is more than all the global total launches combined.
Boeing lifters are fully single shot and cost anywhere from 2 to 3 billion dollars of taxpayers money.
Musk is a fraction of that.
If he gets his Starship operational, he will be able to put 1kg of mass up there for about $20 and for that price you can totally put a data centre in orbit and kill dead the "using water/power/CO2" arguments from the #Antiai mob
Having said all that, everytime his Nazi Starship explodes I rejoice.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr Microsoft's CEO doesn't want us to talk about AI slop any more, does he? He's quite right: we need to start calling unwanted LLM-generated garbage "Nadella", in honour of Microso
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