Comment on I Thought I Knew You

brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• BennyInc@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  All that evaporating water is gonna trickle down eventually. Just like the money.

  source

  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What’s going to be in the water when it gets down there?

    source
• nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  how’s an orbital datacenter going to cool itself?

  source

  • crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Because it’s cold in space, of course /s

    source
  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    that’s the joke

    source
  • pebbles@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Imagine how good water could evaporate in space!

    source

    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Water in a vacuum broke my $500 Dyson and I’m still pissed about it. I should have just got the $80 garbage from Target, and if it breaks I buy a new one. Which is so wasteful.

      source
• ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not really, no. It saves a shitload of electricity, which with current technology means not spewing as much CO~2~ in order to generate that electricity.

  source

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    See this comment: lemmy.world/post/38090104/20233592

    But the TL;DR version:

    • Launching anything into space is heinously expensive.

    • With very generous math, you’d need a radiator like a mile across to cool a space data center, but practically? Probably larger.

    • Datacenter hardware is unreliable and goes obsolete quickly, and any kind of maintenance in space is basically cost prohibitive.

    • There are other smaller yet still crippling engineering challenges, like bit flips from radiation (which gets move severe as lithography shrinks; look up Nvidia’s research on this), assembling large structures in space reliably, and extremely difficult/expensive networking.

    And most of all… Solar is dirt cheap on Earth, compared to that.

    It’s like saying “air conditioning is difficult” and proposing “I know! Let’s live under the Antarctic ice sheet!” That’s not hyperbole. It might be more practical, actually…

    source