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Surely wouldn't a very fundamental problem be that vacuum is an insulator, hence providing the datacenter no way tk stop overheating?
Scott Manley recently made a great video about this. He goes through (and explains it while doing so) a whole lot of rough math, and comes to the conclusion that cooling datacentre satelites is actually pretty doable.
Infrared radiators
If you look at pictures of the ISS, that's what the big white panels are for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_thermal_control#Radiators