• inimzi@piefed.socialOP
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      4 days ago

      Starcloud already launched a data center in spaces. It is leveraging space’s solar energy for power and radiative cooling. I think because in space you don’t have ambient temperature fluctuation so cooling is more constant. And without convection it’s emit as infrared radiation but in reverse. So there’s a real successful deployment that can be duplicated. Google is also getting ready to launch its own data center using same technology. Obviously these would be gigantic radiator panels.

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        I’ll believe it when I see it. It’s one thing to send a wi-fi router to outer space, it’s another to have a functioning data center exist out in the unforgiving harshness of space. Musk is a good vaporware salesman and market manipulator.