fr everyone is obsessed w/ the idea of moving compute to orbit, but there's a massive flaw in the plan. while it sounds like the ultimate way to scale, space is actually a
thermal nightmare bc there's no air to move heat away. without an atmosphere, you can't use traditional convection, meaning you're stuck relying entirely on radiation.
>it turns out vacuum is a great insulatorthis makes managing the heat from high-density ai clusters nearly impossible with current tech.
we basically just built a giant thermos and expected it to stay cool. do you think we'll ever solve the radiator surface area problem, or is terrestrial compute always going to win?
article:
https://thenewstack.io/spacex-and-nvidias-orbital-ai-datacenter-fantasy/