The future of compute is not “put every data center in space.”
It is making compute cheaper, more distributed, and easier to access on Earth.
Space compute may serve niche workloads, but launch costs, latency, radiation, repairs, and hardware replacement are not minor details.
Big vision is useful. Ignoring basic economics is not.
Brian Armstrong@brian_armstrong
The fact that orbital compute is (soon) the most efficient way to build datacenters says a lot about how much excessive regulation has harmed progress on earth. It’s more efficient to fly to outer space than to try and build on land. Freedom is always on the frontier. The U.S. constitution was a breakthrough in that it protected citizens from tyrannical government. What it missed, and what we should try to integrate into the next constitution (on Mars, special economic zones, etc), is restraint against unchecked growth of regulation and government spending. I’ve been slowly collecting proposals for how that could work. Might do a post on it at some point.
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