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1. ceejay+a7[view] [source] 2025-11-04 17:42:25
>>meetpa+(OP)
> In the right orbit, a solar panel can be up to 8 times more productive than on earth, and produce power nearly continuously, reducing the need for batteries.

Sure. Now do cooling. That this isn't in the "key challenges" section makes this pretty non-serious.

A surprising amount of the ISS is dedicated to this, and they aren't running a GPU farm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_Active_Thermal_Contro...

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2. boutel+z8[view] [source] 2025-11-04 17:49:56
>>ceejay+a7
This is absolutely the first thing I looked for too. They just barely mentioned thermal management at all. Maybe they know something I don't, but I know from past posts here that many people share this concern. Very strange that they didn't go there, or maybe they didn't go there because they have no solution and this is just greenwashing for the costs of AI.
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