Trying to somewhat wake up before my 7am media interview about fucking stupid orbital "AI datacenters" and I am GRUMPY. This will go well, I'm sure.
And yes, the orbital AI datacenter thing is real, and 2 companies that I know of have already filed with the FCC for over a million satellites for this completely untested, fucking stupid idea. Fuck you, SpaceX, for one million satellites and using pseudo-religious language in your filing.
Instructions on how you can submit a comment to the FCC telling them that you also think this is stupid are here! https://darksky.org/news/two-satellite-proposals-threaten-the-night-sky-the-window-to-act-is-now/
AFAIK the only reason for this nonsense is avoid all the regulations and social unrest land based datacenters are getting more and more lately.
So I assume the real reason they want to create cities on the Moon and Mars is to avoid the regulations and social unrest they are getting about some island they used to frequent not so long ago.
@jgg @sundogplanets
Totally!
Extraterritorial.
Wasn’t there a bunch of techbros who tried to invent ‘seasteading’ so as to live on cruise ships outside territorial waters/jurisdictions? Those dumbasses just weren’t thinking big enough!