Over and over the "it can't be cooled" refrain. The math and engineering says otherwise. Here's a video by Scott Manley that walks you through the calculations. It's quite straightforward, this is not an obstacle.

It's against the Geneva convention to conscript POWs. Add it to the pile of war crimes, I guess.

Musk is not the only person planning these sorts of satellites.

I heard he started to lean left.

So don't pack them as densely as Earth-based data centers are packed.

In another comment in this thread I posted a link to a youtube video by Scott Manley explaining the math and engineering behind cooling computer hardware in space, it's actually pretty straightforward.

That article was incorrect, then. There are many satellites already in orbit that have computers in them - basically all of them do, nowadays - and cooling them is a well understood engineering problem.

The radiator panels on the ISS are 2,500 square meters in area. The radiator panels are 645 square meters.

Most of the proposals for space-based data centers have ended up focusing on plans to place thousands of individual satellites into orbit, not just one big space station with everything packed inside it. Scott Manley recently did an analysis of the cooling requirements, he worked through all the numbers and explained how it works, and there really doesn't seem to be a problem here.

Yeah, this is fundamental; if you use a thousand joules of energy to do work (of any kind) you will ultimately end up producing a thousand joules of waste heat. The only choice one has in the matter is where that heat goes.

This is a major reason why I get annoyed at the people pooh-poohing space-based data centers. It literally puts the waste heat outside the environment. It should be everything that data center opponents say they want.

Line went up, didn't it?

I pick a simple goal: have a good day. Then I generalize that: try to have as many good days as possible relative to bad days. You can generalize it further and try to ensure other people have good days too, if you're the empathetic sort.

Google: "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI". Prophetic words.

You're not on Reddit.

Want to go halfsies? I've got a car.