I keep thinking how we were told to conserve energy and water for decades just to see these data centers suck it all up and then some.

I have little say in the matter.

I read they were automating everything whether it needed AI or not just to get credit for using AI.

You wouldn’t be communicating to the data center?

Or one of those mini nuclear reactors they are working on

That is a huge amount of resources and money just to generate fake videos and porn.

After we discover FTL travel.

You’d have to constantly adjust its orbit. Something that huge with massive radiators and solar panels is going to get a lot of drag.

Not to mention the power requirements would likely require more than solar unless they put solar panels up far bigger than anything put up there before.

Either that or they’d have to triplicate everything and have a voting system.

You would need staff living up there to support them. Robotics isn’t up to it.

At medium earth orbit the minimum delay will be about 67ms (250 ms to 600+ ms for geostationary orbits) for LEO it is 25-50 ms. The average ground network ping on a good day is 1ms-20ms.

Dumping heat is a real pain in space because you can’t use convection. Everything has to use big radiators and cool off radiatively. Then when it is exposed to the sun it will be hit by the full force of the sun’s heat, then when it is in the earth’s shadow it will rapidly cool.

These free-for-all marketplaces are just going to suffocate under a barrage of scams. Ebay is already the world’s biggest stolen goods fence.

Most store brands come from the same manufacturers as brand name products, they just change the packaging.

Hmmm, if only there was something those companies could do to retain customers. Something like lower prices without shrinking sizes?

It is going into cartel data centers!

It might end up being cheaper to fly to hong kong and buy a terabyte at this point.

IP has more rights than people.