Post by @jodmentum@apobangpo.space

2026-02-10 02:33 UTC

Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. “I am a former NASA engineer/scientist with a PhD in space electronics. I also worked at Google for 10 years, in various parts of the company including YouTube and the bit of Cloud responsible for deploying AI capacity, so I'm quite well placed to have an opinion here. The short version: this is an absolutely terrible idea, and really makes zero sense whatsoever.” Have a look, @sundogplanets@mastodon.social https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/

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@mistaplanet@mastodon.social 2026-02-10 05:46

@jodmentum@apobangpo.space @sundogplanets@mastodon.social You started with a vague statement. Then proceeded to telling us about a totally unrelated Google/NASA, and then ended the post with the same vague statement you started with. In everything you wrote, you didn't mention how it is a terrible thing to do or why you say it is unrealistic

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@astolk@c.im 2026-02-10 07:25

@jodmentum@apobangpo.space @sundogplanets@mastodon.social There's another big reason this isn't going to work and that's economics. How much does it cost to get stuff up there? Like dollars per rack? I guess you can buy several hundreds of racks, maybe thousands, for the price of getting one into orbit. All other technical problems aside, if it is more expensive on one side, are the benefits on the other side of the ledger like hundred times bigger?

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