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saimiam 39 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute cap...

> won’t work

A datacenter (earthbound or space) itself is a fantastical idea until a mix of events and inventions made it feasible to build them to sell compute.

ipdashc 38 days ago [–]

... what? Data centers are literally the original form of computer facility. How are they different from the computer rooms mainframes, etc were housed in?

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