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itishappy • yesterday at 9:48 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Not quite the same problem, because only a small portion of that energy radiated from space will make it back to the environment on Earth. For convection that is 100%.

> Using an entire Mars only nets us about a 2x multiplier for our energy expenditure budget.

We don't need to care about cooking Mars.


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stouset • yesterday at 11:57 PM

> Not quite the same problem, because only a small portion of that energy radiated from space will make it back to the environment on Earth.

I’m assuming you care about melting the GPUs in your orbital datacenters.

> We don't need to care about cooking Mars.

I’m assuming you care about melting the GPUs in your Martian datacenters.

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