Does Elon Musk actually think the vacuum of space is a good cooling solution for an orbital datacenter?

[gwynnion@mastodon.social]

@timberwraith Kinda. Especially if he wants them to be purely solar powered.

[timberwraith@mastodon.social]

@gwynnion Oh, I can see him wanting to use some variation of nuclear fuel. A fun thing to have flying around overhead, you know.

[gwynnion@mastodon.social]

@timberwraith "'Space-based AI is obviously the only way to scale,' Musk wrote on SpaceX’s website Monday, adding about his solar ambitions, 'It’s always sunny in space!'"

Musk vows to put data centers in space and run them on solar power but experts have their doubts

Elon Musk is bringing the same revolutionary thinking that helped him upend the car industry to the data center business with promises this week to put up to a million new satellites in the sky.

AP News (apnews.com)

[timberwraith@mastodon.social]

@gwynnion Ah. Well, I wonder how much sky that mess will be taking up.

[gwynnion@mastodon.social]

@timberwraith Probably a lot once Kessler Syndrome kicks in.

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@gwynnion "...trapping heat inside objects in the same way that a Thermos keeps coffee hot using double walls with no air between them."

Yeeah. Being a personal fan of vacuum bottle style thermoses because of how good they are at retaining heat, I've always wondered about how things stay cool in space, LOL.