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>>g-mork+(OP)
> it is possible to put 500 to 1000 TW/year of AI satellites into deep space, meaningfully ascend the Kardashev scale and harness a non-trivial percentage of the Sun’s power

We currently make around 1 TW of photovoltaic cells per year, globally. The proposal here is to launch that much to space every 9 hours, complete with attached computers, continuously, from the moon.

edit: Also, this would capture a very trivial percentage of the Sun's power. A few trillionths per year.

>>gok+h4
Only people who never interacted with data center reliability think it's doable to maintain servers with no human intervention.

>>lugao+DK
Microsoft did do the experiment (Project Natick) where they had "datacenters" in pods under the sea with really good results. The idea was simply to ship enough extra capacity, but due to the environment, the failure rates where 1/8th of normal.

Still, dropping a pod into the sea makes more sense than launching it into space. At least cooling, power, connectivity and eventual maintenance is simpler.

The whole thing makes no sense and is seems like it's just Musk doing financial manipulation again.

https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/sustainability/pr...

>>mrweas+Ay1
> The whole thing makes no sense and is seems like it's just Musk doing financial manipulation again.

It's a fig leaf for getting two IPOs in one. There's no sense in analyzing it any further.

>>zarzav+gB1
Right, let's not forget that he's selling it to himself in an all stock deal. He could have priced it at eleventy kajillion dollars and it would have had the same meaning.

He's basically trading two cypto coins with himself and sending out a press release.