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Whether we like AI or not, LLMs did open up a horde of use cases that were impossible a few years ago. Orbital data centers are not like that: their value proposition is that they will provide the exact same service already offered by land-based data centers. So the only way for it to make economical sense is if it's cheaper. It's not.

It's more like blockchain than LLM: there's no clear value proposition and you have to squint really hard to see any perceived benefit.

> The prototype is roughly the size of a refrigerator and houses four Google TPUs, operating on roughly 1 kilowatt of solar power

Yeah, no, sorry, this is not a datacenter.

Anyone managing a terrestrial data center that had this level of performance and called it a “data-center” much less “operational” would be fired for cause.

And ah, I see you’ve been dancing around with definitions and goomba fallacies around this thread. You definitely asked your question in good faith.