lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agoDatacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.taranis.ieexternal-linkmessage-square112fedilinkarrow-up1307arrow-down14
arrow-up1303arrow-down1external-linkDatacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.taranis.ielemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agomessage-square112fedilink
minus-squareBeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·4 hours agoWhat’s going to be performing convection to dissipate heat from the radiator in a manner to support the heat generated by an AI data center?
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 hours agoObnoxious as he seems to be, he’s actually right, there will be no convection, but they’d radiate heat in a vacuum, by IR IIRC.
minus-squareJcbAzPx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoYou’d need an enormous radiator to move the heat a data center puts out. Not even all the billionaires put together could afford that.
minus-squarefallaciousBasis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·4 hours agoWhat part of radiator don’t you understand?
minus-squareathatet@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 hours agoWhat you don’t understand is the size requirements those radiators would need to have to cool an entire data center.
minus-squareBeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·4 hours agoTell me you don’t know how radiators actually work without telling me. They dissipate heat via convection through the air surrounding them or gasses in general. What does space lack a significant amount of?
minus-squarePommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·edit-24 hours agoRadiators dissipate heat through…wait for it…radiation.
minus-square0x0@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 minutes agoRight… and a carpet is a pet you keep in your car, got it.
What’s going to be performing convection to dissipate heat from the radiator in a manner to support the heat generated by an AI data center?
Obnoxious as he seems to be, he’s actually right, there will be no convection, but they’d radiate heat in a vacuum, by IR IIRC.
You’d need an enormous radiator to move the heat a data center puts out. Not even all the billionaires put together could afford that.
What part of radiator don’t you understand?
What you don’t understand is the size requirements those radiators would need to have to cool an entire data center.
Tell me you don’t know how radiators actually work without telling me. They dissipate heat via convection through the air surrounding them or gasses in general. What does space lack a significant amount of?
Radiators dissipate heat through…wait for it…radiation.
Right… and a carpet is a pet you keep in your car, got it.
deleted by creator