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Data centers in space sounds like one hell of an expensive investment for something that has not once shown any profitability yet, and are in fact most likely about to burst its bubble in the near future.
No need for water or maintaining a clean room kinda useful.
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Kinda difficult to get water up there, it has to be conduction/radiation.
That doesn't answer the question of why you think servers having no access to water up there is a benefit.
It's an obstacle, not a solution to an obstacle.
Because we common folk need fresh water down here. They can innovate their own vapor chamber, the ISS is being cooled without water already.
You're doing mental gymnastics to make orbital server farms seem less stupid than they are. Why?
You do realise it's already being planned for execution right?
Are you rage baiting? I'm starting to like Lemmy's block feature but I don't know if you're doing this on purpose or by accident.
As michevious as it might be, here's a paper explaining the potential of using solar to run TPUs https://research.google/blog/exploring-a-space-based-scalable-ai-infrastructure-system-design/
Your entire half of this conversation is one big straw man argument.
Yeah, you've been wasting your time, missing the point. Read more carefully next time.