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adastra22today at 11:18 AM2 repliesview on HN

In the vicinity of the Earth, they get to about the temperature of the Earth. That’s not a coincidence. Hotter if they are actively generating heat.


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Symmetrytoday at 12:49 PM

Nobody (sane) is talking about putting nuclear reactors on Satellites in close Earth orbit so we don't have to worry about them generating heat. They've got solar panels that move some of the solar energy they absorb to a central location which presents problems in moving the waste heat back out so that spot doesn't get too hot. But that doesn't change the overall equilibrium temperature.

Geof25today at 11:28 AM

So you can have datacenters in space, you are just not allowed to use them

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