lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agoDatacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.taranis.ieexternal-linkmessage-square109fedilinkarrow-up1306arrow-down13
arrow-up1303arrow-down1external-linkDatacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.taranis.ielemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agomessage-square109fedilink
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 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.
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.