burble comments on AI data centres — in SPACE! Why DCs in space can’t work

[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Yup, they can only dump heat through infrared radiation. The giant white fins on the ISS are radiators for waste heat.

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I think there is another way to dump wase heat. Use it to warm up something that has a lot of heat capacity, and then eject that. Not practical and a huge waste (I also got this from science fiction), so you know they are going to try it. Gonna suck for us groundies.

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[–] Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Theoretically you could heat pump but the energy required to make it work would probably would probably be more than it's usability

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 point 11 months ago

You also need to launch metals back up from earth to replace things. So it is all horribly inefficient

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