eicker@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoAfter Texas’ blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX? “Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now.”arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square118fedilinkarrow-up1303arrow-down118
arrow-up1285arrow-down1external-linkAfter Texas’ blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX? “Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now.”arstechnica.comeicker@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square118fedilink
minus-squareempireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up98·1 day agoData center in space: untouchable Strictly necessary ground radio station to get any usable amount of data to and from said data center: still flammable
minus-squareQuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 hours agoYou wouldn’t say untouchable if you’d seen me with a slingshot.
minus-squareNotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 hours agoYou could burn the ground stations down, but they’re all around the world, and all it takes is 1 to route the data to via the inter satellite laser links. You’d definitely add latency though taking out ground stations near you.
Data center in space: untouchable
Strictly necessary ground radio station to get any usable amount of data to and from said data center: still flammable
You wouldn’t say untouchable if you’d seen me with a slingshot.
You could burn the ground stations down, but they’re all around the world, and all it takes is 1 to route the data to via the inter satellite laser links. You’d definitely add latency though taking out ground stations near you.