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Data Centers in Space

2026-02-02 17:52:01.547779+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

From back in December, but apropos because of Elon Musk's "data centers in spaaaace..." pump-n-dump: < href="https://www.physicsmatt.com/bl...the-dumbest-thing-ive-seen-this- week">Matthew R. Buckley, aka "Physics Matt": The Dumbest Thing I’ve Seen This Week:

To be blunt, the entire stupid idea is a giant middle finger to multiple fundamentals of physics, and the fact that it is apparently being taken seriously by our tech lords, mainstream journalism, and political leaders is a damning indictment of not just the ridiculous amount of money chasing bad ideas in the tech/LLM/hype sector that has eaten the American economy, political power centers, and people who really should know better, but yet another demonstration of how people who built their economic empire on a claim of STEM-based rigor and quantitative genius either can’t do basic physics or know that no one out there who matters is going to call them on it.

Although, frankly, dropping a bunch of GPUs into a decaying low earth orbit is a way to point out how rapidly these things depreciate.

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