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      8 hours ago

      Again, I’m pretty sure they’re aware that you need bigger radiators when you’re using more energy. This is space engineering 101.

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            well any actual engineer who isn’t trying to sell them will readily tell you that a datacenter in space is a very bad idea.

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              They’d better not try to sell them to anyone who has access to an engineer, then. Just a single engineer will bring the whole scheme crashing down.

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                and forget about running 4nm chips in space. shit has to be radiation hardened, which means bigger process nodes and higher energy cost, and lower speed

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                  Another thing they probably didn’t think of. Nobody’s run chips in space before.

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                    they did think of it. lots of people have. I just mentioned what was required. Rad hardened processors are usually 10 to 20 times slower than what we have on the surface

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                5 hours ago

                for starters, at the loads they’re running at, they have literally hundreds of gpu failures a day. How do you propose doing that in space?

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                  Include spares.

                  I hope they’re reading this thread and taking notes, they probably didn’t think of that.

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                    and the infrastructure and robotics to replace them, of course.

                    Assuming 200 nvidia H100 failures a day (conservativo, reality is worse) that’s an extra ~340kg of weight you’d need to launch per day. Which is an extra 120 tons yearly.