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All the venture capitalists who got scammed into funding this:
"Data centers on hard mode" is such a good way to put it.
Space is cold; but if something is hot in space, doesn't it also need to, like... Push the heat away somehow? No air, no wind, heat just stays there. 🤷♂️
Yup, they can only dump heat through infrared radiation. The giant white fins on the ISS are radiators for waste heat.
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.
"Run, the Muxk servers are overhead, it is raining molten tin!"
Theoretically you could heat pump but the energy required to make it work would probably would probably be more than it's usability
You also need to launch metals back up from earth to replace things. So it is all horribly inefficient