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Re:Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers by kragen on Monday December 15, 2025 @07:25PM (#46283051)
At Satellogic, we famously flew mostly just regular cellphone parts on orbit. We did have higher rates of various kinds of failures than is usual on Earth, but hardware failure can generally be masked by software redundancy.
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Re:Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers by klysm on Monday December 15, 2025 @11:43PM (#46284867)
RAM corruption is not cheap to protect against
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Re:Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers by Onavo on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @12:22AM (#46285080)
At today's prices perhaps, but pre ChatGPT you just have to run more of it + more error correction. Not great for the power budget but not anything significant in the grand scheme of things.
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Re:Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers by kragen on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @01:29AM (#46285449)
You need parity, which is cheap, or lockstep duplexing, which isn't. Or, you know, sometimes you can just restart malfunctioning processes and repair corrupted filesystems while you run the failed tasks again on another node.
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