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2025-12-15 Science & Technology

Orbital Data Centers Will ‘Bypass Earth-Based’ Constraints

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1 Why we should train AI in space

Posted by Skidmark 2025-12-14 08:48|| 2025-12-14 08:48|| Front Page Top

2 Using the H100, Starcloud successfully trained NanoGPT, a lightweight language model, on the complete works of Shakespeare, making it the first AI model trained in space.

Knowing human proclivity, we know how this is going to end up, *ornhub One. There goes the neighborhood.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-12-15 06:59|| 2025-12-15 06:59|| Front Page Top

3 One major solar flare could fry the entire constellation. How do they harden them against that considering the extra cost to orbit the shielding?

Posted by magpie 2025-12-15 09:21|| 2025-12-15 09:21|| Front Page Top

4 How?

Place them in the shielded Lagrange points.

Lagrange points are widely used in space exploration. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is positioned in a halo orbit around the Sun–Earth L2 point, enabling it to maintain a constant orientation with its sunshield protecting it from the Sun, Earth, and Moon.
The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) operates at the Sun–Earth L1 point, providing continuous solar wind monitoring and Earth climate observations.
Other missions, including the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), Planck, Gaia, and Euclid, have also utilized the L2 point for astronomical observations.
The L1 point hosts the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), which provides uninterrupted solar monitoring.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-12-15 12:56|| 2025-12-15 12:56|| Front Page Top

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