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Ryimax t1_jbaejcf wrote

Reply to comment by buggaby in Lonestar emerges from stealth with plans for lunar data centers by buggaby

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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