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		CrossVR 9 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Datacenters in space aren't going to work Datacenters in space would make 0 sense because the only way to lose heat is through radiation, which makes for terrible cooling. If you want to avoid national laws and have great cooling, then submerse your datacenter in the ocean instead.

fbu 9 days ago | [–]

Maybe if you build the datacenter inside an asteroid, and use the whole surface as an infrared radiator.

dawnerd 9 days ago | [–]

And they've already at least tried datacenters in the ocean.

https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/sustainability/pr...

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