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by mcphage 6 days ago
> Elons datacenters in space are looking smarter and smarter by the day.

Where would the heat go?

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Where does the heat always go? It goes into the environment. In space the environment is space. It goes from high-temperature GPU made for space to a large metamaterial coated heatsink with optimal geometry to radiate into space.
> Where does the heat always go?

Into other surrounding materials. Of which there are none, in a vacuum.

By your absurd logic, Earth should not be able to radiate any heat, yet it does so into space. This forum is not a suitable place for your trolling.
That is a great question, and materials are still being researched to dissipate heat effectively in space. Meanwhile, I put together this brief video to document the current understanding:

https://youtu.be/s7Mv_OcBXI8 ⤷ Engineering Constraints of Orbital Space-Based Compute: Heat Rejection and more