Comment by stouset
3 hours ago
> Not quite the same problem, because only a small portion of that energy radiated from space will make it back to the environment on Earth.
I’m assuming you care about melting the GPUs in your orbital datacenters.
> We don't need to care about cooking Mars.
I’m assuming you care about melting the GPUs in your Martian datacenters.
That is not the problem being discussed. Radiators can be scaled up, but the thermal mass of Earth is finite. GPUs can survive at temperatures the organisms of Earth cannot.