🚀@LumenOrbit (YC S24) is building a network of megawatt-scale data centers in space, scalable to gigawatt capacity. Congrats on the launch, @johnstonphil, @ezrafeilden, and @AdiOltean! ycombinator.com/launches/LmD-l…
@ycombinator @DrBonillaOnc @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean Please tell me this isn’t for crypto.
@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean imagine your aws account going down cause a satellite crashed into your datacener
@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean It’s cool but also seems like a solution in search of a problem
@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean where are the radiators?
@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean would not have thought it's this "easy" to dump heat in a vacuum, very neat
@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean Unless you get to 1 TW, the economics will always be favourable to build a datacenter on the ground.
@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean How do you avoid debris impact with this big of a solar panel array?
@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean Cooling is hard Sure you've got a black body radiator BUT 1) have to shield it from the sun. the sun gets very hot in space. your radiator would become a heater. 2) have to get heat TO the radiator. how.
@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean What launch, they didn't launch anything.
@ycombinator @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean Many of the questions in the comments are addressed in the White Paper at lumenorbit.com
@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean how do they radiate heat out? seems unpractical to be so concentrated.
@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean Define "launch" for me here
@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean They told me it's a bad idea x.com/tom_doerr/stat…
@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean They told me it's a bad idea x.com/tom_doerr/stat…
@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean Imagine mining dogecoin on this
@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean when i realized how compute -> energy heavy is AI. It clicked for the first time the need for a Dyson sphere. this is one of the first steps.
@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean This is super cool. Congrats on the launch 🚀
@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean Wait will this datacenter just glow and radiate the heat out?
is it true that this would be larger than the moon in the night sky that seems not practical and you're going to piss everybody off if this is so literally nobody will be happy about that there's acres upon acres of empty land here on the ground where things can be maintained more easily why did they decide to put it in space is it clustered I have so many questions
@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean Y’all just be doing anything now
@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean Is this company still operating?
@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean @lunaticoin ni en la tierra ni en marte, en el espacio.
@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean What a time to be a nerd. 🤓
@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean How do you think about cosmic ray shielding with such dense compute?
@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean Nice launch guys !
@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean i have a feeling my application to this next season isn't going to make the cut
@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean The future is infinitely more amazing than we can comprehend.
@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean NASA might have an issue with collision risk here
@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean Looks like the peak is in for sly @sama & @ycombinator
@ycombinator @LumenOrbit @johnstonphil @ezrafeilden @AdiOltean Put the data centers in space so we can't turn them off when we really really need to. Smart.
