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Space datacenters are a fraud. Zombie Apocalypse or civil war where datacenters are burnt down, but AI is still important, is only possible value. (opens in new tab)

There is no alternative to terrestrial silicon based chips. GaN over SiC can only make an overclocked pentium 1 (1993) chip. Even when using liquid oil mist cooling to prevent massive radiative cooling black panels, $55m total lauch costs for 3 NVL72 systems results in a 5 year payback period GPU rental rate of $6.66/hr. Over 50% higher than terrestrial rates, with bad latency. The entire proposition was BS from the start to justify rocket company merger with AI failure. But is now IPO BS to ...

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