Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
ianonavy@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThere’s nowhere to dump heat! Modern data centers rely on heat exchange systems that move excess waste energy into the air or earth. The servers will be thermally throttled to a crawl.
Mwa@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
water cooling?
ianonavy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sure you can have fancy liquid cooling to move heat away from the processors, but you still need something to move the heat into. You can radiate it into space, but not quickly enough to do useful work 24/7.
Mwa@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
oh i get it