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by rbanffy 509 days ago
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.

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