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marcosdumay • yesterday at 6:48 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

And all those conclusions take is cost to space to reduce 15 times; new cooling tech that isn't used anywhere to work at scale but only in space (if ground datacenters can use it too, their cost decrease); that ops cost line to not do anything useful so it can be just dropped; those 10mm radiation shields to not weight anything, because they didn't enter the costs; and that ground datacenters to use more expensive tech than they use today (just not improving is not enough).

We will have space datacenters some day. But I'm not holding my breath.


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rightnutwingjob • yesterday at 9:01 PM

We can just repurpose Deep Space 9, the Cardassians aren’t using it and nobody really cares about Bajor.