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buggaby OP t1_jba4r8i wrote

Put data centers on the moon?

  • The moon has no atmosphere, so even small particles hit the surface at huge speeds. You need to bury them.
  • These centers are "environmentally friendly", because launching them is free?
  • What is this supposed to protect from? An earth ending meteor? Then what's the data for if we're all dead?
  • The data centers will be super far from everything, so really slow to access.

I can't see any good reason for this. But maybe that's just me.

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bigbangbilly t1_jbam7jx wrote

>* What is this supposed to protect from? An earth ending meteor? Then what's the data for if we're all dead?

  • The data centers will be super far from everything, so really slow to access.

Sounds like AWS glacial storage but with extra steps.

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prefer-to-stay-anon t1_jbcj236 wrote

Holy shit. They have Glacier Deep for 0.00099 dollars per GB per month, or 1 dollar per TB per month. How is that economically feasible?!?

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Ryimax t1_jbaejcf wrote

Having a data center in space would probably help with heat dispersion. Other than that though, I can't think of anything

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TheSmellofOxygen t1_jbago7m wrote

It's actually much harder to dissipate heat in vacuum. Only radiative cooling works. No air or water molecules to offload all that thermal energy into when they bump against you. Also solar radiation without an atmosphere, static regolith, latency, infeasibility of maintenance...

They'd definitely have to be buried. I guess I support this effort as a method of expanding space travel, but it's definitely worse than any earth based datacenter.

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buggaby OP t1_jbaf742 wrote

If you have to bury it though? Anyway, we have cold places on the Earth.

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Ryimax t1_jbafisi wrote

The moon's ground is still colder than Earth's. But I would think just putting it in earth orbit would be much

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Stupidiocity t1_jbdnsu2 wrote

When the Sun isn't shining down on it. Otherwise it gets over 200 degrees Fahrenheit. It swings from extreme cold to extreme hot.

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