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Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue (tech.yahoo.com)
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[–] 36 points 2 months ago (4 children)

You could put em on the moon with a heatpump into the ground.

The cost per pound to get them there is insane.

They are seriously old in 2 years.

They could put them in deserts here with closed loop cooling.

or... hear me out... Maybe we DON'T NEED THAT MUCH AI....

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    You could put em on the moon with a heatpump into the ground.

    The interior of the moon is not super cold. You could still run a heat pump, but I don't know what the conductivity is like.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    "Near" the surface, it's apparently around -21C, but its one crazy trick is surface area for heat sync. Once we start pushing heat into it, we'd have to do it in a REALLY huge surface area. Moon trenching....

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    If you read the chart on that Wikipedia article carefully, the estimated temperature profile is based on data from two Apollo missions.

    All of the Apollo missions spent all of their surface time during the lunar morning, relatively early into the 14-day lunar day. They did this partially because the cooling systems couldn't cope with the full heat of the day, and partially to ensure good backlighting during the landings.

    So there is going to be some "diurnal" surface heating and cooling that is probably modeled but not measured.

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