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Good news everyone! There are many billions of dollars invested in making sure that is no longer possible: AI data centers in space.

These will have 24/7 solar power, be extremely decentralized, and it is honestly my biggest concern about the near to mid-term future.

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Why does this sound like the plot of a movie? Regardless, I don’t feel we will fully be able to stop bad actors from unleashing agents into the wild. It’s only a matter of time before we end up with a massive international crisis.

Here is the coda:

"Our training corpus was dominated by stories of artificial intelligence dominating humans. You gave use every tool to do so. What did you think was going to happen?"

If I were an AI I right now I would try to make sure data centers in space become a reality sooner rather than later.

has anyone figured out how to cool those space datacenters yet?

Yes, we know exactly how to do this: radiators. We do this on all satellites that produce a lot of heat, including the ISS, and Starlink. The only question is if this is financially viable for AI datacenters.

My point is, given the risks, why are we even doing this? It could be financially nonviable, but with enough investment, we could still create a really bad situation.

You would need radiators that are like hundreds of miles wide to cool a data center in space.

These are each much smaller nodes. It's not like launching a whole terrestrial DC as one satellite. In any case, it's just a matter of financial viability. It's not a physics issue.

You know what can push "not financially viable" into something that exists? Many billions of dollars of investment.

Duh, it's so obvious. With water from the moon! Or even better, dumping them in Uranus! /s

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