I did a full rebuild four months ago and that was probably the most prescient thing I could have done.

This is the most ghoulishly grotesque idea I've seen AI techbros offer yet, and that was a *high* bar to clear.

These people have no soul or conscience or humanity.

The concept is also utterly ghoulish and gross.

That's not how it works, unfortunately.

The fact that you don't know this is excusable -- not everyone studies thermodynamics or consumes lots of hard scifi.

The fact that self-alleged geniuses and rocket scientists fail to comprehend this basic fact would be damning if they weren't damned already

You know how a thermos works, right? It keeps your soup hot by using a bottle inside another bottle, with a vacuum between them. An orbital datacenter would be your soup.

But wait, it gets worse. Take away that outer wall, so there's just a vacuum. So there's no way to radiate heat at all. Plus

"space is cold"

i know that's a common perception to people who don't know a single goddamn thing about space, but in actuality one of /the/ biggest logistical issues with space is getting rid of waste heat.

"datacenters in space" is delusional shit.

no power, no cooling, launch costs are enormous, no human management possible. c'mon.

Also, anyone who reads ANY reasonably hard Sci-fi could have told them this was a stupid idea because how exactly do they plan to deal with all the waste heat?

That's a good idea in general because the USA is currently being overrun with gangs of masked goons who will assault and kidnap anyone who looks insufficiently white regardless of their actual legal status.

in the last few years i've had to drop so many things for stuff like embracing AI, any studio doing the Riyahd Games Fest is underestimating how willing i am to forego anything they put out lol

... don't tell me that loony yapping about the basilisk had an actual point, I really can't deal with that right now.

IN DEPTH: If you could pay a monthly fee to access a sad simulacrum of your dead grandmother forever, would you?

Fixed that for you.

And the only possible answer is: No.

If I wanted that I'd take up seances or necromancy.

This is a grotesque mockery and desecration and the ghoul that came up with this should be fired.

Out of a catapult.