It’s hilarious how proud of themselves people are for noticing the very first thing anyone would notice about space data centers. I too had the thought “what about cooling” the first time I saw the idea, then I saw huge companies betting on it and assumed I was missing something rather than that no one at SpaceX etc had the BRILLIANCE I had to notice this obvious phys 101 objection, because I’m not a moron.
And yeah, turns out you can make radiators work.

David Bombal
@davidbombal
04-01
Why space servers FAIL
Execs want to put data centers in space, but there's a massive physics problem: vacuums have no convection cooling. Discover why cooling servers in space relies purely on infrared radiation!
Big thanks to @ThreatLocker for sponsoring my trip to ZTW26 and
But latency?
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