[Out_of_Characte]

On earth, difficult as you need to pay the price of being inside a 300 kelvin enviroment. But there's no such temparature in space, just the size of your radiator you'll need anyway. So there may be a very real performance improvement from doing math in space.

[rbanffy]

Radiation will want to talk to you.

OTOH, you might want to burry your supercomputer deep into the crust of Pluto (or in a permanently shaded lunar crater) with just a radiator sticking out.

Latencies between Earth and Pluto can be a problem for computing, but I would appreciate the impossibility of receiving Teams calls. Also, any AI running on that hardware will have a ton of time to think about... anything.

[s1artibartfast]

What is the point of burying it? Cosmic background radiation is 2.7k and I have to imagine interior of any body like Pluto would be higher than that.

[rbanffy]

More for shielding, but you are correct. With proper shielding it makes little difference.