I've sure they've considered that in the engineering. For example, the solar panels would shade it. The space station has a cooling system in it. Musk's Starlink satellites don't seem to be overheating.

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bandrami 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The problem is not shading them from the Sun. And the starlink satellites run at about 1 kW

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bdangubic 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

good read: https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horri...

	▲	teacpde 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		that's an amazing read, lots of concrete and convincing challenges; but otoh, technology is evolving at such a fast pace, maybe it is possible for breakthroughs that we couldn't imagine now to become reality sooner than we would have anticipated?
	▲	WalterBright 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It is a good read. Thank you.