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by ciupicri 12 days ago
"Data centers in space makes no sense", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46876105

"Starcloud can’t put a data centre in space at $8.2M in one Starship", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44390781

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Your argument is complete nonsense, like asserting in the 19th century that airplanes and air travel make no sense. Dismissing is easy; being an inventor takes work. If people listen to you, we will never become a Kardashev II civilization, and it'll be your fault.

There is plenty of scientific literature on the topic of cooling hot materials in space. Moreover, the research is not finished -- it will continue to progress. I surveyed the current works, and put together a video to communicate the salient points:

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