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Time Dilation kind of makes the whole “datacenters in space” idea more fun. Technically…something like a GPS Block III CPU runs an extra ~7,000 clock cycles per day compared to the same machine on earth. Extend this to the extreme, and you get the whole subfield of CS+physics

Time Dilation kind of makes the whole “datacenters in space” idea more fun. Technically…something like a GPS Block III CPU runs an extra ~7,000 clock cycles per day compared to the same machine on earth. Extend this to the extreme, and you get the whole subfield of CS+physics

@skelly · 4mo ago tech space-tech distributed-systems physics timing

Time Dilation kind of makes the whole “datacenters in space” idea more fun. Technically…something like a GPS Block III CPU runs an extra ~7,000 clock cycles per day compared to the same machine on earth. Extend this to the extreme, and you get the whole subfield of CS+physics

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