Comment on Why put data centers in space?
Krusty@quokk.au 1 week ago
Skynet. They want to build skynet. Go watch Terminator. I guess that’s going to become a posthumous documentary.
- Global geographic coverage with very low dependence on local infrastructure
- Extremely difficult physical access compared with a conventional datacenter
- Enormous distributed sensor/communications/computing network
- Integration with Starlink’s existing global communications infrastructure
- Resilience against localized disasters or attacks
- Direct access to governments and militaries that want autonomous communications, sensing, and computation
- Essentially uninterruptible power source
- Guided weapon systems, military intelligence and recon
Etc… come on. It’s skynet! That’s the funny thing you called a data center but really that’s kind of the least of what’s going on.