minus-squaregramie@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 days agoThere’s also the issue that around once a year the two planets will be on opposite sides of the sun. Not only would you have a lag of close to 3 hours, but communication would be completely impossible for a month or so at a time. linkfedilink
minus-squaregramie@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·11 days agoYes, but the two-and-a-half hour lag each way would be a killer. linkfedilink
There’s also the issue that around once a year the two planets will be on opposite sides of the sun. Not only would you have a lag of close to 3 hours, but communication would be completely impossible for a month or so at a time.