Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer"

In comp.os.linux.misc c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

On 6/4/25 7:21 PM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

In comp.os.linux.misc c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

   My concern is not with the underlying TECH- but
   the underlying INTENT.

 
The driving force now is probably military applications. Various
autonomous fighting machines in Ukraine have shown the usefullness
of Starlink in wartime, and that's prompted China to renew work on
building an internet constellation of their own. Then, this AI
constellation might be useful for efficiently processing all the
data from thousands of drones swarming over our heads come WWIII.
But it's too early to tell where they'll really go with that.

 
 
  However, this does not seem to be another StarLink ... that
  is not what they're talking about. China already has lots
  of comm sats - and likely the codes to take over StarLink
  and friends in a pinch.

You don't think they'd connect this AI constellation to their comms
sats? Seems inevitable to me.

   You don't invest THIS much without INTENT.

 
It's not clear how much they've invested at this stage, having only
launched the first 12 satellites of the planned thousands. These
announcements are prone to vapour-ware, there was the Chinese
"LinkSure" company in 2018 who were launching a free global
internet constellation like what Starlink's became:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-30/chinese-company-to-provide-free-internet-worldwide-by-2026/10568434
 
There's not much news since, that I can find, but this page claims
it's cancelled:
https://www.newspace.im/constellations/linksure
 
But there are new Chinese Starlink clone projects that are gaining
more traction now:
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/china-orbits-first-guowang-internet-satellites-with-thousands-more-to-come/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guowang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qianfan

 
  China, of course, wants more global net. However the
  means to THAT is much simpler than this project. WHY
  create a cluster super-computer in orbit ?

Well I talked about that before and you said "My concern is not
with the underlying TECH", so I give up.

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