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Re:DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously by kingkongjaffa on Sunday August 09, 2026 @06:32AM (#49230138)
> Are we really going to have datacenters in space

I haven't properly thought through the thermal engineering problems here but cooling a data center in the vacuum of space seems like a hard thing to solve.

There are plenty of computers on the ISS and on satellites in space, but nothing on the same scale of compute and density.

Re:DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously by vhcr on Sunday August 09, 2026 @08:23AM (#49230776)
The new thing is data centers in the ocean.

https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs#compute-at-sea