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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. adastr+g12[view] [source] 2025-11-30 10:07:00
>>Reptil+M6
No, you can't. You need to radiate away all the heat being received from the sun facing half, AND excess heat from the compute. Even in theory, the non-sun-facing part doesn't give you any benefit. It's already part of the system that accounted for the temperature of the sun-facing side.
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