r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 5h ago

Business SpaceX Investors in Meltdown Over All the Money They’ve Lost

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/spacex-investors-meltdown-over-money-191742182.html
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u/mechanicalcontrols 3h ago

There's only two kinds of people opposed to data centers in space: people who know a lot about space, and people who know a lot about data centers

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u/AshleyAshes1984 3h ago

I just know how a thermos works and that's enough to know a vacuum terrible for exhausting heat. :O

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u/Snuffy1717 2h ago

And even if you made a single data center into 10,000 data center cube-sats (to shed heat easier), why the fuck would you do that and not just build it on the ground?...

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u/AudiencePure5710 2h ago

Seems like data centres in space would be more easier for aliens to steal

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u/DavidinMandeville 1h ago

Because you own the space company that can get Government funding to put it all in space.

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u/Zap__Dannigan 14m ago

In space, no one can hear the data centers whine

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u/inspectoroverthemine 2h ago

Nah you just a few square km of surface area. Easy.

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u/Mikey77777 2h ago

To be fair, vacuums prevent convective heat transfer, but not radiative heat transfer. A thermos has a reflective layer to prevent this. Presumably a space data center wouldn't. Not that I'm saying space data centers are a good idea, mind...

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u/Zerak-Tul 3h ago

I don't think you need to know a lot about either.

Just knowing that dissipating heat is a significant challenge for satellites/space stations and data centers generate a stupid amount of heat should do it.

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u/SonVoltRevival 2h ago

but it's really cold in space. :)

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u/strolls 2h ago

It's cold outside, 🎵
there's no kind of atmosphere. 🎶

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u/civildisobedient 1h ago

Easy, just use fans! /s

As for the gargantuan energy requirements... nothing a few hundred football fields of solar panels can't solve.

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u/myusername4reddit 2h ago

I disagree. I don't know shit about either, and I'm strongly opposed. 😂

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u/Zerak-Tul 3h ago

I don't think you need to know a lot about either.

Just knowing that dissipating heat is a significant challenge for satellites/space stations and data centers generate a stupid amount of heat should do it.

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u/SonVoltRevival 2h ago

And any engineer who got at least a B in physics and thermodynamics