Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat...
by simon_acca on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @03:51AM
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Actually getting rid of excess energy is a huge problem in space since it's pretty empty: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_Active_Thermal_Cont...
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Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat...
by 0110011 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @10:59AM
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Totally. It's the difficulties of putting lots of computing resources in space (heat, power, serviceability, radiation) that actually makes it attractive for selling compute time. Only one company needs to solve those problems and others can leverage that work for a fee. If it was easy, there wouldn't be a business opportunity.