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MadnessASAP 9 hours ago

I ran the math the last time this topic camps up

The short answer is that ~100m2 of steel plate at 1400C (just below its melting point) will shed 50MW of power in black body radiation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46087616#46093316

ViewTrick1002 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Which GPU runs at 1400C?

MadnessASAP 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

One made of steel presumably.

I would assume such a setup involves multiple stages of heat pumps to from GPU to 1400C radiatoe. Obviously that's going to impact efficiency.

Also I'm not seriously suggesting that 1400C radiators is a reasonable approach to cooling a space data centre. It's just intended to demonstrate how infeasible the idea is.

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