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stouset • yesterday at 11:57 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.

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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itishappy • today at 3:07 AM

That is not the problem being discussed. Radiators can be scaled up, but the thermal mass of Earth is finite. GPUs can survive at temperatures the organisms of Earth cannot.