I thought the whole point was to cool big servers - where does the heat go in space?
this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2025
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It's also in the article, which is actually a pretty good read. The short version is is very hard to make heat go anywhere, and you can only radiate it away, which is slow and inefficient compared to even basic air cooling.
That's what I already said weeks ago, when some stupid rich idiot first came up with this...
Why is there an alleged rush to put ai data centre in space
Because the greed stemming from the profits off of the AI funding circlejerk AI, has driven billionaires even more insane than before in their attempt to prolong the circlejerk before the bubble bursts. It is all about that shortsighted profit with them and their investors, and always has been.
What that got to do with space
Let’s them funnel some of that made up ai bubble money into the space race.
They have probably realised (or always knew) that ai wasn’t going to really make them the quadrillions they need to fill the hole in their soul.
They’d much rather be first in line when the solar landgrab begins
Double venture capital?