Technology

lmao "when scientists and engineers figure out how to do it". You can't just engage in magical thinking and frame it as science, sorry.

Well, you can't really come up with a novel material to dissipate faster because the math I presented is actually assuming perfect efficiency. If you understood the math you would have noticed the physical constant governing that process. I never came up with any arguments against it, I am just stating a fact that it would take a 100 megawatt data center a 250k ish square meters of radiating surface.

I am against data centers in space for more practical reasons though, space isn't a good environment to really build anything and we are decades or centuries away from doing anything like it. The data transfer won't be ideal via microwave transmissions for many of the things you are going to want to use the data centers for. Getting the material itself to space is far fetched and manufacturing in space requires an entire earth bound supply chain and adding the step of launching into space isn't going to be cost effective at any scale.

Data centers they should be smaller, distributed and hooked up to the L3 fiberoptics network and instead of subsidizing mega corporations we should be educating and empowering people to self host hardware they own and control in their own home to build a distributed cloud. I don't care about data centers in and of themselves or where they are. I care that the capitalist governments are going to squander the capital build out for things I don't like such as surveillance, military industrial tech and bull shit. Since they operate as a get rich quarterly scheme and not a long term asset for man kind, the build outs are going to be where the land use is cheapest and those all happen to be sensitive ecosystems facing other challenges already, otherwise they'd be desirable and expensive.