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The Space Data Centers Situation is Insane

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The entirety of modern AI can be summed up as overoptimism.
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They invented a ladder and then assumed that it would scale up to heaven...
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To make this even funnier:
All the LLMs down here on Earth operate at loss. The cheap simple engineering projects cooled by water and with no launch costs and no space related extra challenges, those ones, already cost about a magnitude more to build and run than the revenues from paying end users.
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Nice of IEEE Spectrum to give a boost to a smaller creator such as Real Engineering
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@zodder13 From YouTube ↗ 30 Jun 2026 248
These people have never actually seen a server room for real
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Woops didn’t mean to have the comments turned off 😂
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The AIs aren’t the only ones that hallucinate
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@KnowArt From YouTube ↗ 30 Jun 2026 786
dream sponsor
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Advertisement from 2046: "Has an orbital data center fallen on you or your loved ones? If so you may be entitled to compensation from a class action lawsuit, but only if you call now!"
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@smuy3782 From YouTube ↗ 30 Jun 2026 324
Don't let physics and logic get in the way of a funding round.
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@not_a_sp00k From YouTube ↗ 30 Jun 2026 172
I have never heard real engineering get spicy like this before.
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@miket591 From YouTube ↗ 30 Jun 2026 279
Imagine instaling one of these, then you get a crowdstrike update and convert your station into an expesive asteroid.
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“in space no one can hear your cooling problem” is doing a lot of work here
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@weird_0432 From YouTube ↗ 30 Jun 2026 1700
This white paper sounds like what my students turn in when they don't think I'm reading their homework
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@13:10 "Reality seems to have become less valuable in the last few years."

So true.
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@username65585 From YouTube ↗ 30 Jun 2026 2000
Don’t be too hard on Claude. It worked very hard for several seconds on that business plan.
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@lxndr1298 From YouTube ↗ 30 Jun 2026 4000
corporations in 2003: "you can't pirate our stuff with your potatoes! straight to jail!"
corporations in 2026: "we need to turn the entire solar system into a plagiarism machine"
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7:59 "...being gassed up by an overly agreeable AI..." Too true!
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Thank you for not turning this channel into a private equity owned, AI-powered slop content factory.
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@rustoo3823 From YouTube ↗ 30 Jun 2026 426
1:17 "In space, no one can hear you protest" 😂