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Data Centres... in Spaaace? [16m YT vid] (www.youtube.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Deebster to c/[email protected]

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Yewtube mirror: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=d-YcVLq98Ew

Scott Manley discusses Lumen Orbit's plan to data centres in space and whether it or not makes sense.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry. Did you just say cooling is basically impossible in space?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

yes. not entirely impossible, but highly impractical in the context of "datacenter in space".

releasing heat in space is quite tricky, since radiating it into vacuum is not very effective and datacenter generates enormous amount of it. it is basically heat factory.

i am imagining some borg cube datacenter surrounded by field of heat radiators god knows how long, some sort of datacenter-space-urchin.

might look cool as an illustration in scifi story, but that is where it will stay for a long time.