2026-01-02 06:27 UTC
NYT gives "data centers in spaaaaaaaaace" the he said, she said treatment, but I can't argue with the final quote from Tom Mueller "The hottest thing to invest in right now is A.I., and the second-hottest thing is space. Now they’re converging."
(this is not to say they're *good* investments, but it does go some way to explain why so many more-money-than-sense techbros are so hyped about the idea)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/technology/space-data-centers-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BVA.ba0o.zBMifPKFo2Fy&smid=url-share
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@reedmideke@mastodon.social 2026-01-02 06:35
Phil Metzger thinks it's plausible at $200/kg, which, according to him, could happen in 10 years 🤨 Which I wouldn't *totally* dismiss, but I'm pretty confident the current trend of investors throwing hundreds of billions at "AI" without any coherent path to return on the investment will last significantly less than 10 years