"It really seems like anyone with some renders and a white paper written by someone being gassed up by an overly agreeable AI can get VC funding these days."
Like with Starlink, it’s all about orbital dominance.
If Starcloud is about data storage out reach of terrestrial events (attacks and desasters), then it’s irrelevant whether the performance can compete with terrestrial systems. In fact the paper neither mentions flops or bytes.
Looking at starlink, it must be possible to run at least some computational power in space.
Like with Starlink, it’s all about orbital dominance.
If Starcloud is about data storage out reach of terrestrial events (attacks and desasters), then it’s irrelevant whether the performance can compete with terrestrial systems. In fact the paper neither mentions flops or bytes.
Looking at starlink, it must be possible to run at least some computational power in space.
The biggest issue is heat dissapation. A satellite that relays a signal requires orders of magnitude less compute power than an AI datacenter.
Well, they mention AI in the title. It’s a startup. Of course they do.