I thought this was going to be unviable because cooling megawatts of power passively by radiation alone is hard? That’s been overcome somehow then? The article just says “Orbital data centres can use solar power and radiate their heat to space”.
I did wonder in the past about using a large heat pump to make the heat fins much hotter, which should accelerate cooling. But just an armchair thought. Any info on how this is/will be cooled?
edit: I also wonder what happens when an SSD goes bad… do they just expect storage capacity to decrease over time, or is there some maintenance mechanism to send up fresh drives? So many questions…
I thought this was going to be unviable because cooling megawatts of power passively by radiation alone is hard? That’s been overcome somehow then? The article just says “Orbital data centres can use solar power and radiate their heat to space”.
I did wonder in the past about using a large heat pump to make the heat fins much hotter, which should accelerate cooling. But just an armchair thought. Any info on how this is/will be cooled?
edit: I also wonder what happens when an SSD goes bad… do they just expect storage capacity to decrease over time, or is there some maintenance mechanism to send up fresh drives? So many questions…