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Isn't one of the big complaints against data centers is the massive demand on water used for cooling? How are they going to cool these in space which is notoriously hard to cool things down in?
Don't they put plutonium reactors in space? Have to be able to cool those somehow? Or maybe they are not difficult to cool... I know I have seen pretty massive heat fin stacks on satellites.
Honestly if they are hyper focused on putting data centers SOMEWHERE this seems like a less bad option... Maybe I'm missing the bigger picture somehow.
Think about that, though. How much heat does a satellite produce to necessitate large fin stacks? And how much heat does a data center produce?
Honestly not sure about the math, I was just speculating for the sake of discussion, and a belief that this is slightly less harmful to human life than terrestrial solutions.