My favorite thing about space is how easy it is to get rid of excess heat

perhaps some of the users in this thread would be interested in my startup that will build submersible data centers deep under the sea

the ocean has effectively infinite heat capacity and the immense hydrostatic pressures greatly increase data compression ratios

heat isn't even the biggest problem, radiation can damage the data. they replace laptops almost weekly at iss.

This makes me feel like an "innovation" version of this

Data centers in space is such a ludicrously, obviously terrible idea that the only people that would propose it came up with it on the fly and the only people that would buy it are tech investors that'll shovel money onto anyone confident enough

Why dont we build datacenters in an volcano ?

Capitalism is so efficient that all the terrible ideas get some seed capital too.

If you thought trying to vent the heat through a liquid medium was a tough chore, wait until you try this out in space... where there ain't any liquid water to use.

Of course you think data centers in space is a great idea, you're 12.

I'd pay to see the DC Techs they'd have to acquire to rack and stack that space datacenter. No way it goes up in one piece when that'll cost trillions of dollars.

It'll be like the evaluation and training scenes from Armageddon. Lol

It's like these people watch apocalyptic warning movies like Terminator and think it's something to try to achieve.

The tech bros pushing this don’t actually think it’ll ever work. They’re seeing that the AI bubble is gonna pop and are trying to kick the can down the road with these outlandish plans as to keep the VC bozos pumping more money into the pit for a few more quarters.

I didn't even know anyone was suggesting this. What an abysmally stupid idea. I accept that I am a big old nerd and tend to know more about random sciency shit than average but while I knew that people think of space as cold (and why that doesn't mean what people think it does...) I didn't think anyone thought there was "abundant power" up there?! Good grief. Even if you lost 90% of solar power in heating the air, being able to capture the 10% (presumably at a similar level of efficiency to in space) would obviously be better than putting the solar panels in fucking orbit.

JFC.

Hexbear: nooo you can't put data centers in space! You wouldn't be able to dissipate the heat effectively in space! Silly AI companies

China: we're already doing it