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It would take roughly 5000 square meter area to cool a typical small data center heat output (1 MW). Not great, not terrible.
by tomasphan 8mo ago
It would take roughly 5000 square meter area to cool a typical small data center heat output (1 MW). Not great, not terrible.
- iancmceachern 8mo agoYeah but these hyperscalers are building data centers that are 100 or even 1000 mW
- UltraSane 8mo agoThat is a very tiny amount of compute though.
- kibibu 8mo agoApparently, OpenAI plan to build 250 GW of computing capacity by 2033. To put that in space, based on your numbers, that's 1,250 square kilometers of cooling - an area roughly equivalent in size to Los Angeles
- iancmceachern 8mo agoThat's a lot of weight to launch into orbit