• nomad@infosec.pub
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    2 days ago

    You could put that on the dark side of the moon for example. Don’t get much colder than that. Radiating the heat away is no problem is you don’t take up much in the first place. The question is where energy comes from. I’m guessing they are going for nuclear energy for that. Sounds doable l, but why would you want to?!

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      2 days ago

      The moon is tidally locked to the earth, not the sun. i.e., “the dark side” is the side that is never exposed to Earth, but it has a regular “day” cycle in the form of lunar phases. And dissipation would still be a problem, because you don’t have air to dump the heat that computers generate to

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        Radiative cooling. You can still have a data center in a stationary orbit between the earth and the moon thereby shielding it from the sun most of the time. But you are right, much harder problem. Gotta think on that some.