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30% of terrestrial datacenter power use is cooling. Space cooling is easier!
by dzhiurgis 5mo ago
30% of terrestrial datacenter power use is cooling. Space cooling is easier!
- dgellow 5mo agoWhat makes cooling easier in space? Isn’t it harder due to the lack of atmosphere?
- dzhiurgis 5mo agoJust need radiators, no fans, no piping, no ac compressors, no moving parts.
- nickburns 5mo agoBut, but—convection!
- dgellow 5mo agoHow? There is no heat dissipation without an atmosphere. I mean, you have dissipation via radiation but that’s very slow
- roer 5mo agoNot that slow if the temperature is high enough. Power radiated is proportional to T^4
- datadrivenangel 5mo agoI don't want to run my cpus at optimal radiator temperatures... 1000s of degrees is not ideal.
- noitpmeder 5mo agoNot on earth at least!