A datacenter in space

At night somewhere in the African savannah

a man and his child stare up into the sky

the stars are hard to pick up,

hard to pickup from all the other blinking lights

the boy lifts his hand to point

his father anticipates the question looking at him and

"Mmhmm" the father mumbles

"What is that" the boy says out loud pointing at a blinking light in the sky.

"Ahhh" his father begins

"That my son, ... is a data center"

"Ohh, we learnt that in school" the boy explains

"It's where the Large Language Models used to run" he continues

"Yes, ... that is correct" the father replies proudly

"... but" the boy begins

"doesn't it get as cold as -250 degrees in space? Isn't that too cold for the processors to function?" the boy asks

"Yes it is son, but they figured it out"

"...but, doesn't it get as hot as hot as 120 degrees in space? Isn't that too hot for the processors to function?" the boy continues

"Yes it is son, but they figured it out"

"...but, don't the gpus degrade in performance every few years, needing to be replaced with newer ones?"

"Yes they do son, but they figured it out"

"...but, doesn't running the gpus require a lot of energy. ...and, ...and the solar panels are only 45% efficient in conversion of solar energy to usable electricity, meaning they have really large solar panels that were almost impossible to carry from earth into space due to the weight and gravity. ...and, ...and meaning they can't deploy as many gpus per datacenter?....dad?"

"Uhh..., yes it does son, but they figured it out"

"...but, don't the datacenters need maintainance? for the devices may fail and need to be repaired or replaced?"

"Yes they do son, but they figured it out"

"...but, don't they need to account for the fact that space debris may end up destroying the datacenters"

"Yes, but they figured it out"

"...and...and were people just ok with them polluting the night sky?"

"Uhmm, we didn't protest it that much really"

"...and ...and the massive deployment of funds to build these datacenters in space, did it happen before or after the AI bubble burst?"

"You're asking too many questions son."

"But, dad..."

"Ok fine, what's your next question?"

"In history class, the teacher said that they tried to build an all knowing AI, were they successful?"

The questions continued while the now abandoned satellites which had ended up polluting the night sky instead of contributing to the betterment of humanity floated by in a line across the night sky, but if you squinted past that, you could almost make out, what used to be called the Big Dipper.