Re: Digital Realty- Non Renewal

That's right up there with the congressman who was worried that Guam was going to sink into the ocean because we had too many Marines on it....



On Thursday, April 23rd, 2026 at 11:45 PM, Christopher Morrow via NANOG <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 11:37 PM Dale Carstensen via NANOG
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > CBS Sunday Morning, April 19, 2026 had a story on a company named
> > Panthalassa, who take a large steel tube and basically make it into an
> > ocean wave generator which can bounce around untethered, communicating
> > via satellite, with a data center inside.
> 
> Perfect. What was that saying? "I encorage my competitors.. something
> something..."
> 
> > Then there is Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD) who thinks an orbiting data
> > center can be cooled by the low temperature in space, but nobody has
> > explained where the heat can go if there is only vacuum surrounding it.
> 
> There was once this fellow that spun a story about space travel... how
> great and how much it'd be
> good... and then, apparently, after talking about this for nye on 10
> years that person suddenly had
> orbital mechanics explained to them...
> 
> I imagine that a similar case is happening with the senator... Also,
> also your 'gotta repair a harddrive' costs
> suddenly got very much more expensive.
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