Comment by sschueller
3 hours ago
You can only cool by radiation in space. You may get more energy from the sun but how are you going to get rid of all the heat fast enough?
3 hours ago
You can only cool by radiation in space. You may get more energy from the sun but how are you going to get rid of all the heat fast enough?
How hot do you think black objects in space get? Something like 10°C. Look up thermal equilibrium of an ideal black body.
In the vicinity of the Earth, they get to about the temperature of the Earth. That’s not a coincidence. Hotter if they are actively generating heat.
So you can have datacenters in space, you are just not allowed to use them
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But are they doing work internally that generates heat? Genuine question.