Is It Really Impossible To Cool A Datacenter In Space?

[tonyget]

Conclusion，putting data center into space doesn't work well with thermodynamics

 

[Fred Chen]

Yeah, cooling being radiation-limited, and also heating from the Sun, Earth, and elsewhere.

At the end, he acknowledges we haven't even talked about the power supply in space.

 

[tonyget]

Also the recycling problem. On earth data center dispose old hardware every few years，how do they do that in space