alt Hacker NewsWhy space data centers? What advantage this would have? Cooling will be a big issue, while it is easily solved on the planet earth, as we have water, air that can transfer heat away.
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sublinear • today at 8:17 AM
Defense systems in space need to be... in space.
I don't think people are looking at this the right way. They need to be inaccessible to terrestrial and air weapons, have lower latency, not be dependent on power plants, etc.
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trhway • today at 7:38 AM
>Cooling will be a big issue
a 1m2 at 70C radiates 785 Watt. Seems thet cooling will be more simple than on Earth.
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They don’t have any advantages at all.
People point to the cost of land, but if being physically inaccessible isn’t a problem, then there are lots of cheap places on Earth you can deploy data centres too at far lower cost than launching them into orbit.