Google Gearing Up to Launch Experimental "Data Center" Into Space Next Week
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Google Gearing Up to Launch Experimental "Data Center" Into Space Next Week
Google is gearing up to launch a fridge-sized data center satellite with the horsepower equivalent of a single server.
What a stupid fucking idea
I wonder how they’re going to cool it?
Edit: Oh. So they’re just… not doing that. Okay. Hmm.
“It’s just a proof of concept guys, there are totally tons of good reasons to do this. We are definitely not just mashing sci-fi words together to scam investors.”
dogshit ass timeline where billionaire sociopaths keep doing the wrong things got me truly irritated since 2020
Ignoring the hundred reasons this is dumb, I would just love to know the launch cost per expected compute.
Best quote from article is at the very end:
Brilliant. They should invest every penny into this. If they got this far without even referencing a 6th grade science book, they deserve to go under.
“fridge-sized data center” REALLY cracks me up. Like, how much processing power can you fit in there, considering all the space you need for cooling. And then I’m imagining some bloke on the ISS looking outside and just seeing a fridge float there hehe.
What I don’t like is thinking further about this. If this is how they want to roll out a bit of processing power in space, I can totally imagine them just yeeting like 5000 fridges into LEO, polluting it even more :(
Also, how’d it get so far? None of the engineers at Google screaming about how this is a really REALLY bad idea? Do they think that these datacenters are gonna be more acceptable by the public than the ones on Earth and accept the lower efficiency for better PR? I mean, that would make sense, if Google would care about looks, which I don’t think they do.
Nice! Oh, “Data Center”… Misread it as “CEO”.
Home lab in space usable for 15 mins.
F.U.C.K. SCROOGLE! I hope they lose their asses on this!
We need an acronym, like “Fine” (freaked out, insecure, neurotic, emotional) from Italian Job.
F.U.C.K. = Fucking Useless Crooked Killjoy
My dick pics gonna be an astronaut like Katy Perry.