Notes on Space GPUs

·Dwarkesh Patel··

John Collison and I just interviewed Elon. The interview was recorded before we knew that SpaceX was acquiring xAI, so the fact that our first topic was space GPUs now feels all the more relevant.As I was preparing to interview Elon, I put together some notes and a spreadsheet to help me think through orbital datacenters. I turned those notes into this blog post.Even if orbital data centers don’t make sense yet, in the long run the singularity is clearly moving into space. Earth intercepts about...

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