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Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. (taranis.ie)
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[–] draco_aeneus@mander.xyz 0 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

What if you build it on an asteroid or moon or planet. Uranus is ~-225⁰C, right?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 minute ago

Yes I'd like to build data centres on Uranus one of the most distant planets in our solar system, and also one without a solid surface but who's counting.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

It would need to have an atmosphere, so asteroids and most (all? Idk not an astronomer) moons are out.

Mars might be feasible at some point in the far future, but there's still the lag problem of 3-20 minutes depending on time of year, so not very useful for anything user facing.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 hours ago

Yes, but the two-and-a-half hour lag each way would be a killer.