Re:Masayoshi Sun dismisses Musk's idea for orbital data centers
by Insanity on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @08:06AM
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LEO is incredibly saturated.c if you build a data center there at the size needed you deal with space debris.
MEO is about 500-1000ms latency in a good scenario (blanked coverage), that’s not snappy.
Re:Masayoshi Sun dismisses Musk's idea for orbital data centers
by LargoLasskhyfv on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @09:18AM
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> MEO is about 500-1000ms latency in a good scenario (blanked coverage), that’s not snappy.
Just spitballing here: To the Moon it's about 1.5 seconds, and back the same OFC. That's 3000ms.
MEO is way below GEO, which is still way below Moon <-> Earth. How's that going to be 500 to 1000ms?!
Edit: I dealt with space debris by pointing to Planetes, the Manga/Anime. This is the way ;->
Edit of the edit: Or if that is too comical for you, the first 10 to 20 minutes of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey , basically the trip from Earth to the Moon, with a layover on that spinning space station.
Re:Masayoshi Sun dismisses Musk's idea for orbital data centers
by Topfi on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @11:28AM
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Are we seriously using a Manga and a sci-fi movie from the 60s as a source? On the note of basing ideas on pure fiction, how far along are the hyper loop and starship earth-to-earth? The later even made it into the IPO filing of this very serious company...
Re:Masayoshi Sun dismisses Musk's idea for orbital data centers
by LargoLasskhyfv on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @12:28PM
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One needs to have vision.
Even if it's met with derision.
I'm under the influence of the monolith.
Drumming the femur at speed.
Ouk! Ouk!
Cooling? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_droplet_radiator
https://spectrum.ieee.org/orbital-data-centers-heat
Combine with https://spectrum.ieee.org/microfluidics-cooling-ai-chips-cor...
Solved!
Maintenance? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes !