Shipping a whole GPU rack to space? NVLink survival doubted
jwt0625 · x · 2026-10-27
An X user questions the feasibility of sending an entire rack of compute to space: unless the backplane is genuinely launch-proof, it's hard to believe none of the NVLinks would break during shipment. The tweet highlights the most practical engineering pain point of space datacenters—hardware reliability under launch vibration.
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