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199 points angadh | 4 comments | 26 Jun 25 20:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.003s | source

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"Terrestrial datacenters have parts fail and get replaced all the time."

This premise is basically false. Most datacenter hardware, once it has completed testing and burn in, will last for years in constant use.

There are definitely failures but they're very low unless something is wrong like bad cooling, vibration, or just a bad batch of hardware.

1. meepmorp ◴[27 Jun 25 11:32 UTC] No.44395941[source]▶

> unless something is wrong like ... vibration

so you might have problems if you were to do something that causes a lot of vibration, like launch the entire data center into space?

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4. ◴[01 Jul 25 21:09 UTC] No.44438036[source]▶

Starcloud can’t put a data centre in space at $8.2M in one Starship