"It really seems like anyone with some renders and a white paper written by someone being gassed up by an overly agreeable AI can get VC funding these days."
I’m not saying the space data centres are a good or even viable idea, just saying you can improve the reliability significantly if you try. The space data centre planis a non starter, there’s nowhere for the heat to go.
Yeah, I’ve been wondering why there’s such a push against the feasibility of space data centers on a lack of cooling when it’s in a vacuum where we have already solved temperature regulations. Are there good arguments for why this doesn’t work for data centers in space? I mean I imagine other concerns will definitely make it difficult but this argument hasn’t seemed accurate to me. I mean also I’m against data centers in general so ya know fuck them but from a reality pov like isn’t that argument incorrect?
I’m not saying the space data centres are a good or even viable idea, just saying you can improve the reliability significantly if you try. The space data centre planis a non starter, there’s nowhere for the heat to go.
Yes, investing in reliability will increase reliability
You can radiate the heat with a biiiig long radiator but it doesn’t solve any of the other problems or improve commercial scalability
You may note that this thread is talking about data centre reliability …
Also you can’t radiate heat in space …
How does the Sun work?
Mostly emitting ungodly amounts of photons and radiations, as far as the earth is concerned. Is that actually cooling it though ?
Yes, all that emitted radiation does cool down the sun. It’s why it has a mostly stable temperature instead of getting hotter infinitely.
You can ONLY radiate heat in space…
The ISS has 475m^2 of ammonia filled radiators that like to disagree with you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_Active_Thermal_Control_System
The whole EATCS radiates 70kW, so less than one modern data centre rack. Helpful!
Yeah, I’ve been wondering why there’s such a push against the feasibility of space data centers on a lack of cooling when it’s in a vacuum where we have already solved temperature regulations. Are there good arguments for why this doesn’t work for data centers in space? I mean I imagine other concerns will definitely make it difficult but this argument hasn’t seemed accurate to me. I mean also I’m against data centers in general so ya know fuck them but from a reality pov like isn’t that argument incorrect?
Sure. What did it cost? How many flights to get it up there? How many human spacewalk missions to maintain it?