The Thermodynamic Space Data Center Lie
SpaceX recently proposed a 1-million satellite orbital data center network to bypass Earth's grid problems. But the vacuum of space is a perfect insulator, making extreme AI cooling mathematically impossible.
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The Thermodynamic Space Data Center Lie
SpaceX recently proposed a 1-million satellite orbital data center network to bypass Earth's grid problems. But the vacuum of space is a perfect insulator, making extreme AI cooling mathematically impossible.
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