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Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by GMoromisato on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @02:40AM (#49429885)
Okay, I admit I underestimated the container ship benefits. 80+ MW is a lot of power and you get easy cooling to boot. Fuel cost is a problem (relative to solar), and you can't do inference on it, but it might make sense for training.
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Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by CamperBob2 on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @01:58PM (#49437998)
Don't get me wrong, nobody is a bigger fan of economical and sustainable civilian access to space than I am. (Which means nobody is more disillusioned and resentful of Musk than I am.)

And I fully sympathize with the need to remove these things from local and even national sovereignty, having seen as an increasingly-horrified American just how destructive populist influence can be.

But putting millions of servers in orbit? That just doesn't seem like the way forward, for so many reasons.

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