@TeslaLarry: Here is Will Marshall, Founder and CEO of Planet Labs (Partner with Google doing Orbital Data Centers) at the Liquidity…
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Planet Labs CEO Will Marshall announced at a conference that his company is partnering with Google to launch TPUs into space for orbital data centers, claiming viability within a few years.
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Here is Will Marshall, Founder and CEO of Planet Labs (Partner with Google doing Orbital Data Centers) at the Liquidity Conference last week: “So it’s actually really quite simple. It was just a question of when it’s going to be cheaper to launch all those solar panels and chips into space than putting on the ground. And it turns out that’s going to be in a few years. So we’re partnering uh with Google to launch some of their TPUs into space. We’ve already launched Nvidia’s uh uh some of Nvidia’s GPUs into space. We’re launching Google’s TPUs into space on an early test.” This time Elon time may be real.
Benjamin De Kraker (@BenjaminDEKR): Interesting video. The part I am skeptical about is where he says space datacenters will be viable in 30 months.
When the reality is almost certainly closer to five years or a decade.
Is this a fair concern or does it make me a “hater?”
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