I am just honestly confused. There seem to be no logical reason for it, except that it would raise the stock value of rocket producers like SpaceX and Blue Origin.

  • Krusty@quokk.au
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    Skynet. They want to build skynet. Go watch Terminator. I guess that’s going to become a posthumous documentary.

    • Global geographic coverage with very low dependence on local infrastructure
    • Extremely difficult physical access compared with a conventional datacenter
    • Enormous distributed sensor/communications/computing network
    • Integration with Starlink’s existing global communications infrastructure
    • Resilience against localized disasters or attacks
    • Direct access to governments and militaries that want autonomous communications, sensing, and computation
    • Essentially uninterruptible power source
    • Guided weapon systems, military intelligence and recon

    Etc… come on. It’s skynet! That’s the funny thing you called a data center but really that’s kind of the least of what’s going on.