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0 pointssimianwords1mo ago0 comments

why do you think this changes what i said? I know it has constraints but the fact is that Google is serious about it. Enough to publicly speak about it many times and invest enormous amounts of R&D.

You are saying they are "hardly betting on it". This is grossly false and I wonder why you would write that? Its clearly a serious bet, with lots of people working on it.

> Google CEO Sundar Pichai says we’re just a decade away from a new normal of extraterrestrial data centers

Its surely a high risk bet but that's how Google has been operating for a while. But why would you say they are hardly betting on it?

As a counter question: do you think Google is not serious about it?

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MattSteelblade1mo ago

I never said Google wasn't serious; I said they are hardly betting on it relative to their other capital expenditures. Google rightfully describes this as a "moonshot." To date, the only public hardware commitment is two prototype satellites in 2027 for a feasibility study. Compared to the billions pouring into Waymo, DeepMind, and terrestrial data centers, this doesn't yet qualify as an "enormous" financial bet, even if the engineering intent is serious.

simianwordsOP1mo ago

i agree with you then. lets agree that the intent is serious.

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