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adastra22 10 hours ago

> sure space is cold

Even this isn't true. It's ~120 degC in daylight in LEO. It only gets cold in the shade, but a solar powered data center is pretty useless in the shade.

hdgvhicv 7 hours ago | parent [-]

The solar labels are in the sun. Behind them they are in the shade.

adastra22 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In close proximity, and connected to metal structures radiating & conducting heat at 120 degrees. You still have to expel that heat somehow, and route it around the spacecraft core.

Tepix 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I think stopping the heat conductivity is a solved problem - space telescopes manage to do this. But all in all, cooling in space remains a very big challenge.

DalasNoin 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The energy collected from the solar panels must be converted into heat in the AI chips. It's really like putting the AI chips directly into the sun, just with extra steps. Sunlight gets transformed into electricity which gets transformed into heat in the chips.