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  • Another one for https://elonmusk.today/
    by toomuchtodo
  • Musk was confident we'd have people on Mars by the end of 2026, so maybe he's assuming we'll put the data centers there?
    by mrgoldenbrown
  • 2021 even - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiPJsI8pl8Q
    by sh201
  • What's the consensus on this? I feel like the packaging and heat dissipation issues need some work. Its much harder to fly electronics on a big noisy rocket than most people think
    by bediger4000
  • It's a bold claim, a few years distant, by Elon Musk. Just on that alone you can pretty much assume "definitely bullshit".
    by rsynnott
  • Musk is doing what he's always done: making outrageous promises/predictions that won't come true but sound like science fiction to lure the uneducated into investing.

    * The hardware is outdated quickly and putting it in space just makes it impossible to replace or service.

    * Dissipating the heat generated is a real problem that limits the hardware you can put in one satellite.

    * Satellites will always have greater latency and worse bandwidth than land-based connections.

    by gogurt2000
  • Sales pitch for a rocket company.
    by sybercecurity
  • "From a technology standpoint, Tesla will have a car that can do full autonomy in about three years, maybe a bit sooner."

    --- Musk, 2015

    "I mean, it does look like [full autonomy is] gonna happen this year."

    --- Musk, 2023

    "I think [FSD] will be available for unsupervised personal use by the end of this year in certain geographies."

    --- Musk, 2025

    by jqpabc123
  • Ah, the old "[absurd thing] will happen with AI in [time period just long enough that everyone has kinda forgotten about the prediction when the deadline passes]" gambit.

    (A bunch of AI boosters were predicting AGI by 2025 a few years back, for instance.)

    by rsynnott
  • The only thing that is "better" in space is the efficiency of solar energy. Everything else is harder and more expensive

    * Rockets costs more than trucks for moving things around * No water in space for cooling/heat transfer * Heat dissipation is difficult because vacuum is the best insulator * How do you repair one? * network bandwidth is probably lower

    by zactato
  • > Everything else is harder and more expensive

    permits? connectivity?

    by peterfirefly
  • Exactly same problems which Microsoft faced during its underwater datacenter experiment and exactly same reasons why Microsoft ended this experiment.
    by Geof25
  • Don't forget the various types of damaging radiation that will be pummeling your expensive and delicate GPUs.
    by mrgoldenbrown