lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoDatacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.taranis.ieexternal-linkmessage-square282linkfedilinkarrow-up1664arrow-down113cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1651arrow-down1external-linkDatacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.taranis.ielemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square282linkfedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ml
minus-squaregramie@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 day agoYes, but the two-and-a-half hour lag each way would be a killer.
minus-squarevery_well_lost@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·23 hours agoMy understanding is that these “datacenters” would be used exclusively for model training, where latency doesn’t matter. It is still an outrageously stupid idea for a zillion other engineering reasons, though.
minus-squaregramie@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 hour agoThere’s also the issue that around once a year the two planets will be on opposite sides of the sun. Not only would you have a lag of close to 3 hours, but communication would be completely impossible for a month or so at a time.
Yes, but the two-and-a-half hour lag each way would be a killer.
My understanding is that these “datacenters” would be used exclusively for model training, where latency doesn’t matter.
It is still an outrageously stupid idea for a zillion other engineering reasons, though.
There’s also the issue that around once a year the two planets will be on opposite sides of the sun. Not only would you have a lag of close to 3 hours, but communication would be completely impossible for a month or so at a time.