This is stupid as hell. Fortunately the article covers the reasons why. Points to Tobias for proper journalism instead of just breathlessly repeating their slop.
I expected reurgitated marketing points, but then saw which site this is.
This idea is just so dumb.
But they didn’t tell bozo, apparently.
On the other hand, using heat pumps, couldn’t heat panels be pumped to 1000+ °C, where infrared cooling is more effective?
mfw Bezos wants to build Mikoshi
Spot on. Bezos stole the ideal from cyberpunk
We’ve had the template for this for decades. Put the solar panels in space where the thick soupy gunky spunky atmosphere doesn’t stop the little energy things from the sun. Collect the power in orbit. You just do that up there up in orbit okay? And then you fucking beam the power down to the surface you numpty fucks. Use a maser to send the power down to the surface and you can pick a frequency that isn’t affected by the gunky spunky and then the receivers on the ground can pick it up and they send the power through these things called wires to a building that uses the power and the building can use this neat little thing called CONVECTION to more efficiently remove the heat from the things using the electricity wow.
Or just, y’know, use less power and make use of ground based solar. We don’t need fucking AI data centers in space. Don’t get me wrong, I think it might be useful to, say, have some compute up in geostationary orbit that other satellites could punt some data to for computation. You could have an evenly spaced ring of the fuckers so the users up there can get some data crunching done with a RTT of like 50ms instead of 700ms. That seems like a hard sell, but it at least seems a bit tenable if you needed to reduce the data you’re sending back to the earth down to a more manageable amount with some preprocessing. That is still not fuckass gigawatt AI data centers. Fuck
Typical tech-bro bait for cultivating the cult of worship that allows billionaires to extract profit from compliant drones and consumers. Just because he is rich we have to listen to every bs statement his says cause it can have consequences one way or the other. People should stop buying from Amazon yesterday. It’s really that simple.
And soak up all the sun and leave us in the dark?
It would, eh, take some time to soak up all the sun with whatever they can put there.
No we can just pave the dark side of the moon with solar panels, and beam it back to earth
Governments scramble for lobby money as parasitic tech con man claims “fart powered AI is the next big thing”.
Please don’t forget to put some strong lasers together with AI on that orbit too
Only good capitalist is a dead capitalist.
When total morons win the capitalist lottery… aka always.
I think it’s more likely we’ll put solar reflectors in space that enhance power absorption on earth. But there’s no way solving heat dissipation in space is more efficient than getting energy from space to earth. Maybe it would work on the moon where we could dissipate heat into rock, but not in space.
I like the idea but I don’t think that will counteract the gross environmental damage that his data centers cause.
