"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."
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?
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
Sure. What did it cost? How many flights to get it up there? How many human spacewalk missions to maintain it?
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?
The whole EATCS radiates 70kW, so less than one modern data centre rack. Helpful!