Again, just to remind you, I didn’t claim space datacenters are economically rational.
replyMy original claim, in its entirety, was that on earth "You'll also get much better cooling for free via convection."
replyYou sure will. My contribution is that you don’t need much better cooling.
replyThe average temperature of a rock, car, or the ISS in low earth orbit is about -18C.
replyIt's this huge misconception that space is super cold. A better mind model is that space doesn't have much of a temperature at all just cause there's nothing there. Vacuum doesn't have a temperature.
replyYou won't immediately freeze if you enter space without a suit. You'll die almost immediately, but it will be because your blood will begin to boil because of the lack of pressure kinda like an extreme form of divers sickness - it's just not the cold that'll get you first.
That’s all true. But stuff in space has a temperature, and once I’d been dead a while in LEO, mine would be -18C.
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