• floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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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      1 day ago

      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.