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> Not quite the same problem, because only a small portion of that energy radiated from space will make it back to the environment on Earth.

I’m assuming you care about melting the GPUs in your orbital datacenters.

> We don't need to care about cooking Mars.

I’m assuming you care about melting the GPUs in your Martian datacenters.

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That is not the problem being discussed. Radiators can be scaled up, but the thermal mass of Earth is finite. GPUs can survive at temperatures the organisms of Earth cannot.

I am quite certain that you are drastically underestimating the scope of the problem of "getting rid of heat" when you're dealing with the discussed levels of power production.

Maybe, but that's a "simple" resource problem. The Earth radiates 20x more heat than that today, and it has not been optimized for purpose. Remember that the initial assumptions were that AI has already designed and manufactured tens of thousands of these plants.

The problem at hand is not just getting rid of heat however, it's getting rid of heat without cooking the Earth. I still fail to see how generating the heat off planet fails to solve that.




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