lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoDatacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.taranis.ieexternal-linkmessage-square288linkfedilinkarrow-up1597arrow-down113cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ziptechnology@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1584arrow-down1external-linkDatacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.taranis.ielemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square288linkfedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ziptechnology@lemmy.ml
minus-squareXLE@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·2 months agoAnd you can only build so many of those radiator panels before you start running into congestion problems. You don’t want them radiating onto each other.
minus-squareDevial@discuss.onlineBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoAnd those radiator panels are heavy and big, therefore enormously expensive to launch, and vulnerable to micro meteorites and other orbital debris.
And you can only build so many of those radiator panels before you start running into congestion problems. You don’t want them radiating onto each other.
And those radiator panels are heavy and big, therefore enormously expensive to launch, and vulnerable to micro meteorites and other orbital debris.