eicker@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoAfter Texas’ blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX? “Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now.”arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square168linkfedilinkarrow-up1343arrow-down121
arrow-up1322arrow-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 · 4 days agomessage-square168linkfedilink
minus-squareVeloRama@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·4 days 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.