I'm so confused, I am a bear of little brain, can someone explain to me, in simply words... HOW THE FUCK DO YOU COOL A DATA CENTER IN SPACE
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@quinn Can't they just open a window? I thought it was cold in space?
@quinn also, replacing faulty hardware in earthbound datacenters is trivial. Replacing faulty hardware in orbit, uhhhhh.
@rysiek that's easy, NOTHING IS EVER ALLOWED TO BREAK.
@quinn ah fair. Well then we also have an answer to your question:
NOTHING IS EVER ALLOWED TO OVERHEAT!
Oof, that was simple!
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@quinn Space is cold, no? I guess the cooling part would be the lesser issue.
@frumble Space isn't quite cold, for this purpose it's more empty. you need matter to transfer heat into a medium dense enough to allow heat to flow. Put something generating heat in a vacuum, and it will cook itself.
@quinn @frumble yeah. There is simply nothing out there to "engulf" anything. Space is empty.
Think of it this way:
Air is a pretty bad heat transfer medium. Water is a much better heat transfer medium. If you could put a GPU directly in water it would cool faster. That's pretty intuitive.
Space is (basically) empty, it is not even comparable as a heat transfer medium to air, because well there is no medium.
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