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1. yardie+w6[view] [source] 2025-11-29 14:56:21
>>mindra+(OP)
I asked Google for more information about AI datacenter in space. This was the first sentence, 'AI data centers are being developed in space to handle the massive energy demands of AI, using solar power and the vacuum of space for cooling.'

> After laughing at "the vacuum of space for cooling" I closed the page because there was nothing serious there. Basic high school physics student would be laughing at that sentence.

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2. Reptil+M6[view] [source] 2025-11-29 15:00:24
>>yardie+w6
You can radiate the excess energy away on the non-sun facing part. In theory.
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3. jhansc+ab[view] [source] 2025-11-29 15:37:21
>>Reptil+M6
You can radiate the excess energy away on the non-sun facing part on Earth almost just as well..., though corrosion is an issue.
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4. ffsm8+Ir[view] [source] 2025-11-29 17:46:27
>>jhansc+ab
"just as well"?

I man you totally can radiate excess heat energy on earth, but your comment implies that the parents idea of radiating off excess "energy", specifically HEAT energy in space is possible, which it isn't.

You can radiate excess energy for sure, but you'd first have to convert it away from heat energy into light or radio waves or similar.

I don't think we even have that tech at this point in time, and neither do we have any concepts how this could be done in theory.

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