▲ 648 ▼ Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. (taranis.ie) submitted 8 months ago by lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 246 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] Devial@discuss.online 16 points 8 months ago* (4 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] XLE@piefed.social 8 points 8 months ago And you can only build so many of those radiator panels before you start running into congestion problems. You don't want them radiating onto each other. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Fermion@mander.xyz 4 points 8 months ago (1 child) The area of radiator needed directly corresponds to the amount of power harvested by the solar panels. It doesn't matter what the load is. So a compute frame with the same amount of solar panels as the space station would need approximately the same radiatot area as the ISS, unless you are bringing nuclear power into the mix. I agree that space based datacenters are a bad idea, but the thermals really are not the gotcha people are making them out to be. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago The solar panels needed is another problem for the space data center fantasy. Once you put together all the mass over enough surface area to make it work, you would blot out the sun worldwide. permalink fedilink source parent [–] fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago They're called fins. Not panels. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] XLE@piefed.social 8 points 8 months ago And you can only build so many of those radiator panels before you start running into congestion problems. You don't want them radiating onto each other. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 4 points 8 months ago (1 child) The area of radiator needed directly corresponds to the amount of power harvested by the solar panels. It doesn't matter what the load is. So a compute frame with the same amount of solar panels as the space station would need approximately the same radiatot area as the ISS, unless you are bringing nuclear power into the mix. I agree that space based datacenters are a bad idea, but the thermals really are not the gotcha people are making them out to be. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago The solar panels needed is another problem for the space data center fantasy. Once you put together all the mass over enough surface area to make it work, you would blot out the sun worldwide. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago The solar panels needed is another problem for the space data center fantasy. Once you put together all the mass over enough surface area to make it work, you would blot out the sun worldwide. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago They're called fins. Not panels. permalink fedilink source parent