• JimmyMcGill
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    1 day ago

    How far up your ass did you pull up the 5 million datacenters from?

    You’re just throwing random terms and numbers around at random thinking that makes you smart.

    in trying to defend that we need data centers in space (regardless of its its feasible or not) because of the heat that they would generate on earth, you first ignore the energy (and monetary) cost of sending all of that into orbit and then justify that by saying that it’s feasible if we just do asteroid mining and space construction and assembly. Did I suddenly wake up in 2126 from my nap or what?

    If we are that much worried now about earth heating up then maybe it would be more fruitful to think if we need this many data centers and why as well as other types of activities and social classes, before we go wild on wrecking the planet by launching massive constructions in space because we’ve wrecked the planet all so that certain people can add another 1 or 2 zeros to their bank account.

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      24 hours ago

      The 5 million doubles our energy surplus that causes global warming. That’s where the number comes from, to understand the proportions.

      We will have an arms race between China and the US. For national security, all caution will be thrown into the wind. “it would be more fruitful to think” - people won’t.

      Both sides will build as fast as possible, with the help of robots.

      Did I suddenly wake up in 2126 from my nap or what?

      No, but with AI, progress will arrive faster.

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        23 hours ago

        There are a little more than 200k hospitals in the entire world.

        What you are proposing is a data center for roughly 1.5k people. Not US and China, this includes the entire world. Now you get why your numbers are ridiculous?

        You can’t just work your way backwards from a number that is convenient to you. This is why I said you are comparing things with vastly different orders of magnitude.

        As I said before, please go educate yourself further because you continue this embarrassment

        Have a nice evening.

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          22 hours ago

          What you are proposing is a data center for roughly 1.5k people.

          The data centers are not for AI application but for development. I don’t think there is an upper limit on AI improvement. So whatever can be built will be built.

          Have a nice evening.

          Thanks, you too!