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IncreasePoststoday at 8:46 AM2 repliesview on HN

If just Elon was taking about data centers in space, you could take it with a grain of salt. But there are other serious players talking about it like Google and blue origin that it should be pretty clear it can't just be dismissed with "you didn't think about cooling!"


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NitpickLawyertoday at 8:52 AM

Yeah, and there's already been tech demonstrators for this. Starcloud-1 launched in '25 (on a F9) and demoed a CotS H100 in a ~60kg bus w/ 1kW of power. They ran inference on a "gemini" model (probably something small) and trained a GPT2 version LLM as a tech demonstrator.

ForHackernewstoday at 9:06 AM

Google also wanted to deliver internet from balloons and put everyone's real name on their YouTube comments. Not all their ideas are winners.