Knowing Elon he'll fuck it all up. He contributes nothing good to society these days.

Can't say I've been exactly a fan of his either in a good while now, to put it nicely... But sometimes good people do bad things too, and sometimes bad people do good things, either intentionally or otherwise. I'm not convinced space data centers are economically viable but we'll see - I haven't done the math, so I wouldn't know.

They're certainly more desirable than data centers on Earth. At least in space we don't have to hear them. The only problem is how to cool them off, because there's no atmosphere to release the heat into. What if it they had closed loop liquid nitrogen cooling systems? I'm not a scientist, but if you want something VERY cold, there's liquid nitrogen, just don't get it on your skin, hair, eyes or in your mouth.

Yeah, it's a little bit like that.

Data centers in space, yeah that won't fuck up the environment launching all those server racks up into space. Plus vacuum is a great insulator, how do you cool the data centers...

Estimates suggest radiating 1 MW of heat requires upwards of 2,500 m² of radiator space. A typical 100 MW terrestrial AI data center would require a radiator roughly the size of a massive festival ground, making launch and deployment incredibly complex.

Also great for latency lol.


Any truth in this?

CRASH IMMINENT: Ed Zitron Says AI Valuations Are Complete FRAUDS



I haven't watched it yet, just popped up


Anyway the cost to build AI space centers and environmental mess to launch all that into space, build a space elevator first.

At this point just tear down AI data centres like this article claims workers are doing.

The legal system isn't stopping AI data centers, so we have to do that ourselves.

Space around Earth has all kinds of loose metal chips floating around anyway. And we’ll have more due to the booming satellite internet industr, not to mention private military/governmental systems. No, I can’t support putting data centers in space because it will make doing everything else much more difficult.

Well we don't really have any other options. Tech companies don't wanna tear down their precious data centres and there's nowhere to build them without ruining ecosystems, communities or both.

https://www.science.org/content/article/mathematicians-issue-warning-ai-rapidly-gains-ground

As artificial intelligence (AI) muscles its way into field after field, researchers have wrestled with what it means for the future of their disciplines. Few communities have felt that pressure more acutely than mathematicians, who have haplessly watched AI get frighteningly smart, frighteningly fast.

Today, 16 math specialists have turned that unease into a public cry for help—and call to action. Part warning, part manifesto, the 11-page Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics cautions that unchecked automation threatens not only how math is practiced, but what the discipline stands for. It also lays out principles for using AI in ways that support, rather than erode, the field.

https://leidendeclaration.ai/



https://www.wionews.com/trending/four-ai-models-fail-math-test-they-could-not-cheat-on-humans-score-a-perfect-10-1781532927963

Artificial Intelligence systems might have solved an 80-year-old Math problem, but a test designed to evaluate it against top-tier academicians has revealed that it still has a long way to go when it comes to new and complex research-level mathematics. Four AI systems failed the test, which is part of "First Proof," a rigorous new AI benchmarking mechanism. The AI systems were given 10 research-level maths problems, and their answers were assessed by a jury of anonymous human specialists. To prevent AI from simply scanning through its training data, all the questions were new and had never been published anywhere. They were provided by 10 researchers from a broad range of mathematical specialities who had solved them at some point in their careers. A group of 30 mathematicians checked the answers, and the results proved that AI does not come close to human mathematicians in novel problems. The findings were published in the Nature journal.

So much for AI making math history... 'Solving' a math problem is useless if you can't show how.


Mathematicians also blow a lot less hot air into the environment ;)

Here's something I read but I don't know if it's real. I hope it's real. AI billionaires are scared and workers are taking down data centers?

If not real, maybe it will put these ideas into people's heads at least. It worked here, not for data centers but for speed cameras. Toronto gave up on them as people kept tearing them down. Now they're banned in all Ontario.

We do have red light cameras, which could be better used to make traffic lights more efficient and prevent accidents before they happen. For now they make them less efficient as I'm not pulling into the intersection anymore for a left turn until the road is clear. I wait behind the line if I spot anything that looks like a camera. "Pulling halfway into the intersection allows you to wait past the crosswalk. When the traffic light turns yellow, you are permitted to safely complete your turn, and this maneuver ensures traffic keeps flowing behind you." However if the opposing traffic goes through yellow, you get snapped for turning on red...

As for Data centers, luckily none here nor any plans to build them locally. If any plans arise I'll be there to protest them.