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Eric Schmidt apparently bought Relativity Space to put data centers in orbit (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world to c/hardware@lemmy.world
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[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I kept getting 80s/90s dystopian cyberpunk motifs in my head when reading this article.

Schmidt does not possess the wealth of an Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos. His personal fortune is roughly $20 billion, so approximately an order of magnitude less. This explains why, according to financial industry sources, Schmidt is presently seeking additional partners to bankroll a revitalized Relativity.

There is an abstract, satirical beauty to this paragraph.

Also worth keeping in mind that Schmidt recently stated that we shouldn't bother with climate goals and just focus on AI.

These individuals really need a dose of reality to get them down from the clouds and back to the ground.

[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Reality comes in many form factors.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I keep seeing comments about it being untouchable in space. But if it was put their by human technology, it can be taken down by human technology.

[–] dirtycrow@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I genuinely cannot understand his point of view. AI data centers in space? I guess we’ll just make a solar veil the size of Texas to power it. And the cooling would have to be done by opening it up to let the solar winds cool everything. We can also have the ISS come fix something when it breaks. But otherwise: This dude just sounds like the guy who wanted to visit the Titantic in a carbon fiber bean. I can’t help but feel like he knows this is just a stupid idea and is going to embezzle the investor money

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure what makes this attractive is the extraterritoriality. The first step to sovereign corporations, free from any pesky government rules and regulations