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> Elons datacenters in space are looking smarter and smarter by the day.

Where would the heat go?



Where does the heat always go? It goes into the environment. In space the environment is space. It goes from high-temperature GPU made for space to a large metamaterial coated heatsink with optimal geometry to radiate into space.


> Where does the heat always go?

Into other surrounding materials. Of which there are none, in a vacuum.


By your absurd logic, Earth should not be able to radiate any heat, yet it does so into space. This forum is not a suitable place for your trolling.


That is a great question, and materials are still being researched to dissipate heat effectively in space. Meanwhile, I put together this brief video to document the current understanding:

https://youtu.be/s7Mv_OcBXI8 ⤷ Engineering Constraints of Orbital Space-Based Compute: Heat Rejection and more




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