eicker@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoAfter Texas’ blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX? “Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now.”arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square141fedilinkarrow-up1300arrow-down120
arrow-up1280arrow-down1external-linkAfter Texas’ blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX? “Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now.”arstechnica.comeicker@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square141fedilink
minus-squareVeloRama@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·1 day agothere’s no convection cooling in space, because vacuum is a very good thermal insulator. compute in space does not scale because of that alone. you would need massive (F/M)IR radiator arrays to get rid of the thermal energy.
there’s no convection cooling in space, because vacuum is a very good thermal insulator. compute in space does not scale because of that alone. you would need massive (F/M)IR radiator arrays to get rid of the thermal energy.