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ACCount37yesterday at 1:12 PM2 repliesview on HN

Ah yes: computation. Famous for annihilating water. Every bit you flip consumes an H2O molecule.


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kennywinkeryesterday at 1:47 PM

Well, how do you cool servers in space then?

Evaporative cooling is the way it happens down on earth - and that shuttles h2o molecules from dense useful clumps like aquifers and rivers to a less useful form spread out in the air. But evaporating h2o isn’t an option in space afaik - since there’s a shortage of air to take up the h2o. In fact I think radiative cooling is the only actual option in space.

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etc-hostsyesterday at 2:54 PM

My job is mostly worrying about cooling paths, maintenance, power, heat transfer, lifetime of GPUs, and high performance networks. NVIDIA partner. I can drive to the datacenter. This stuff BARELY works here on Earth. Especially thermal issues.

Looking forward to watching spacex defeat physics.