• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    They’re also talking about data centers in space, yet are too cheap to use anything but evaporative cooling + supplemental gas generators on Earth.


    I did some math on, amongst other things, launch costs for an Earth-data center sized installation, or the area needed to radiatively cool it, and it is fun:

    https://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/heatrad.php

    See that power of four? Areas get very large, like kilometers wide, if you want your coolant below a typical 300K (~30C), and apparently no one told Bezos that little detail.

    Those space construction startups know what they’re doing. They’re selling billionaires a bridge to nowhere; and it’s working.

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      22 hours ago

      They’re selling billionaires a bridge to nowhere; and it’s working.

      That’s just wealth redistribution /s

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      They’re selling billionaires a bridge to nowhere; and it’s working.

      Look, I’m not saying it’s a good thing. In fact, it would be an insanely wasteful use of resources, labor, energy, etc.

      That said, folks are all about “eat the rich” and this may very well be the closest thing to that.

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      Those space construction startups know what they’re doing. They’re selling billionaires a bridge to nowhere; and it’s working.

      Guess I should have gone CHA instead of INT.
      I might have gotten some of that billionaire money to buy more RAM.