I was addressing your comment about heat rejection, a subject on which I have some amount of expertise. If you have objections to the proposed space data systems other than your comment about radiators, go start a new thread.

No, the approach would be to launch massive solar panels that can be seen with the naked eye from the ground.

The solar panels would do double duty as radiators.

Of course they will.

Clients need to do their research, choose the tool they want, and then choose the consultant to help them implement it.

That's the way it works. Microsoft isn't the right partner to help you implement a solution based on Google Gemini. Duh.

Or this could be an example of Jevons Paradox .

As AI makes employees more productive, and thus more profitable, would you fire them or hire more?

The orchards will be hiring fruit pickers before Labor Day. Feel free to apply and displace an H2-A worker, or better yet an illegal immigrant.

3 PM Eastern Washington weather, 86 F, 12 mph wind, 19% relative humidity, No AC needed.

Don't worry, we'll get our roasting eventually. It is summer after all. Then I will set the heat pump to Cool. Last year I needed cooling mode 21 days. It's in heating mode from mid October to Mid April.

https://www.zerohedge.com/weat...

If you scroll down near the bottom of that article there is an interesting graphic, the 1930s really were hot.

Answer 1; Highmore South Dakota. Admire the pictures of the windfarm after the windstorm. So much for free power.

Answer 2, Night. So much for solar power, now you have to add batteries. Take a modest 50 MW data center and a 15 hour winter night and see how many Tesla Max power batteries (3.9 MWH each) it takes to get through the night, and then calculate their combined weight.

Now it's morning, the batteries are flat and you have 9 hours to recharge them and still keep the data center running.

Bonus problem, there is a heavy overcast today. The PV is at 8% of nameplate. (That's a real number by the way,) Now how many solar panels do you need to run the data center and recharge the batteries?

Again, you were either eleven or you were living under a rock if you hadn't heard of the Transformers. Cuz if you had heard of it, you'd have known it was for kids and adolescents, and the female actress was there to keep the dads interested.

And that's exactly why we need to build more power infrastructure, particularly nuclear, and hand it all over to AI companies for free.

I have a ":w! saves" mug ;)

I have to ask: did you literally never use a computer lab at all in the DOS era?

Not "logging into DOS" - logging into your account. I literally said "mimicked the DOS prompt, including common commands", e.g., you're at the DOS prompt. When you want to login, you ran LOGIN.EXE, which "mounted" your network account. I believe it was Novell NetWare-based.

You're off by a factor of 10x.

Starlink is at 480-550 km
Amazon Leo is at 590-630km

At most that's about 30% the distance or about 30% more latency. Also an extra round trip of 300km is about 1ms extra latency.

Once the target enters the correct password, PamStealer displays a message stating that the file is damaged and can't be installed. This is designed to be a decoy to prevent the target from suspecting anything is amiss.

Same sort of technique I used back in secondary school, lol ;) We had a programming class (in Basic on DOS), and it was painfully trivial, so I'd always complete the assignments in like 5 minutes and then spend the rest of class messing around. So one thing I wrote was a program that mimicked the DOS prompt, including common commands, and when someone ran the login command and typed in their username and password, it would say that the password was incorrect so they'd think they had typed it wrong (while it was actually saving their username and password, then logging out of my account), so that when they tried again, it worked. I would launch on a bunch of computers in the lab after class when I could get away with it..

Among the passwords collected were the teacher's administrator username and password. So when it came time to write my final project for the course, among the various demo-style scenes in it was a stereogram generator. The hidden image in the stereogram was her username and password. ;)

(Thankfully she had a good attitude about it... seemed like she wanted to get mad at me but also found it funny. In retrospect, that could have gone very badly had she gotten angry...)

Your final line is relevant "Quality of life matters."

And for some people, "quality of life" is maximized by avoiding exercise (because they dislike it and so doing it lowers their quality of life) and instead doing computer stuff and eating tasty food. It is true that they will have health issues, but for most of their life those issues are minor inconveniences, and they are maxing out on quality.

Maybe they die at 85 from a heart attack or some other issue related to poor heath, and that's ok with them. The years they gave up were worth the enjoyment they got from the years they had.

Obviously, you have different values. Which is just as valid. We must all make that "existential trade off" for ourselves, and each person is going to wind up somewhere unique on the spectrum. Someone else's conclusions might seem stupid to you, but that is not because the conclusions are ill-informed or unwise, but because their values are different than yours.

The only stupidity is in failing to recognize that.