Spending all the money you have and all the money you can get and all the money you can promise has a number of side effects, such as gigantic data centres full of high-power chips just to run lyin…
    • burble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Yup, they can only dump heat through infrared radiation. The giant white fins on the ISS are radiators for waste heat.

      • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        I think there is another way to dump wase heat. Use it to warm up something that has a lot of heat capacity, and then eject that. Not practical and a huge waste (I also got this from science fiction), so you know they are going to try it. Gonna suck for us groundies.

        “Run, the Muxk servers are overhead, it is raining molten tin!”

        • Deathray5@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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          1 day ago

          Theoretically you could heat pump but the energy required to make it work would probably would probably be more than it’s usability

          • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
            1·
            1 day ago

            You also need to launch metals back up from earth to replace things. So it is all horribly inefficient