Comment HJ Not just cold

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How about an array of orbiting servers?

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Not just cold (Score: 4, Interesting)

by zocalo@pipedot.org on 2014-03-13 10:36 (#HJ)

Objects in orbit can also get very warm when in direct sunlight as they can't readily convect the energy gained from the sun away to a vacuum, so you'd also need to convert that heat into a form of radiation that can be disposed of. It's not an insurmountable problem, but I suspect you'd be much better off just by giving a little big more thought to locating data centres on Earth to climes more suited to passive, or at least renewable, temperature control.

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2014-03-13 10:58 Interesting +1 computermachine@pipedot.org
2014-03-13 17:45 Interesting +1 nightsky30@pipedot.org
2014-03-13 16:02 Insightful +1 zocalo@pipedot.org

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