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An angry mob cannot destroy it during the social revolution.
However, the ground stations can still be destroyed.
It's going to last until some piece of space junk whacks into it, causing it to shatter into 10's of thousands of pieces. I forsee a time when all of Musks low-orbit agenda is literally smashed apart. One errant bolt at 30k mph at a time..
Doesn't even need that, the physics of it just doesn't work. There's basically no way to cool it and no way to power it. Anyone who thinks a space data center is a good idea has failed high school level physics.
It will actually not last that long, because data centers require constant physical maintenance. Its one of the many many reasons that data centers in orbit makes no real sense
They are designed to be maintenance free just like starlink. They'll go up, and come back down every 5 or so years. They'll constantly be iterating on them so new more powerful ones with any issues that existed resolved for the next batch.
No one is repairing starlinks in space.
So it's a boondoggle.
Wouldn't be the first, won't be the last.
Okay, so right, they still won't last that long 👍 We're saying the same thing and making the same points.
Well, i dont think it doesn't make sense if there was enough users of the AI data centers, but I dont think there will be. I agree that they won't last long though by design, just like how starlink doesnt last long but does work, because it actually solves a real problem.
Like maybe this would work better as a general purpose datacenter and not AI focused? But you wont get investment for that because everything now is ai ai ai ai.
One decent hacker getting into the control and stabilization system, though...