Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
Kirp123@lemmy.world 1 month agoYou could cool them through radiative panels bit you would need quite big panels to radiate away the heat a data center produces.
Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
Kirp123@lemmy.world 1 month agoYou could cool them through radiative panels bit you would need quite big panels to radiate away the heat a data center produces.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The entire ISS has 14GW of cooling (and a lot of that just goes towards keeping the sun from cooking it). A single server rack can produce around 72GW of heat.
The ISS cost about $100 billion.
Basically, if you took the entire budget of Sam Altman’s “Stargate” project (money that, to be clear, he does not have and will not get) and put it into space data centres you might, optimistically, put one rack in space.
Most data centres have dozens to hundred.