You don’t even need the desert. Just put it in India and use coal power or whatever. AI training doesn’t care about latency to the data centre, so you could put it anywhere, as long as it is cheap.

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phire 12 hours ago | parent [-]

I mean, I'd prefer they used some form of renewable energy.

But there should be plenty of options once you start actually optimising for the same use-case as space data centres. Many places have very predictable wind (especially off-shore, which gives you bonus access to cooling water). Or maybe you could set up small hydro power schemes along remote rivers.

	▲	butvacuum 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		After the last round of this a few weeks/months ago I realized: Assuming the investors for this are too stupid to do the figures seen here themselves is folly. So, they must be factoring in something else- Perhaps space based DCs allow for expansion into ITAR controlled countries and/or sanctioned countries/individuals. Maybe throw in the fact that nobody can REALLY verify system behavior once its up there. So NSA/CIA etc sure are chomping at the bit to allow it. I'm sure there's others I haven't thought of- probably less outlandish/tinfoily as well.