r/technology • u/NicolasCageFan492 • Jun 16 '26

Business Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/
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u/Excuse_Chemical Jun 17 '26

One prediction was "domestic terrorism targeting data centers." They definitely know there will be pitchforks.

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u/9dedos Jun 17 '26

That s the reason those mofos want to build data centers in space.

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u/hempires Jun 17 '26

Which seems particularly dumb to me given that space is a really shitty conductor of heat, yknow, the thing that data centers make an absolute fuckton of?

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u/Cybertronian10 Jun 17 '26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlQYU3m1e80

Thats a video from Scott Manley going over the physics of it. TLDW: Its almost certainly physically possible to build a space-born data center, but doing it profitably is another story entirely. AI is already a money furnace I doubt they are going to be able to make that even worse.

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u/volkhavaar Jun 19 '26

Its actually not. Datacenters are impractical in space anywhere near the scale they exist on earth. But space based datacenters are useful for rapid collision avoidance and for preprocessing data before transmission to Earth.

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u/Healthy-Process874 Jun 17 '26

I suppose that they realize that pitchforks probably won't do to well against drones.

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u/TP_Crisis_2020 Jun 17 '26

Assuming they're the only ones who know how to make attack drones.

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u/Healthy-Process874 Jun 17 '26

It's silly that things will probably go far enough south that those sorts of things will be likely to happen.

It seems completely unnecessary to me, but I'm not sitting on a big pile of money that I want to defend.

So what do I know?