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Re:Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin go all in on moon settlements by matte_black on Monday May 28, 2018 @11:33PM (#17176264)
At the very least, it would allow for us to create a new data center located off Earth to reach greater levels of reliability and redundancy, even if you believe humans have no point in being there.
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Re:Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin go all in on moon settlements by ggg9990 on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @04:01AM (#17177235)
What data would be worth preserving through an event that obliterated every data storage location on earth?
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Re:Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin go all in on moon settlements by matte_black on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @12:23PM (#17180559)
Financial records, block chains, the knowledge of mankind, etc.
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Re:Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin go all in on moon settlements by ianamartin on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @12:45AM (#17176570)
Something something, cold storage. If you can tolerate the latency.

But it would be “cheap” once established because cooling would be easy.

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Re:Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin go all in on moon settlements by rpcope1 on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @04:16PM (#17182593)
> But it would be “cheap” once established because cooling would be easy.

I would imagine that if you put a datacenter in orbit or on the moon (or pretty much anywhere else in space), cooling would actually be significantly more difficult, if for no other reason than that in a vacuum the only way of getting rid of heat is via radiation. On earth, you can at least dump the heat out (much more efficiently) via convection into the atmosphere or conduction into a large body of water, or something similar.

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