Polling shows a growing political reckoning is coming for data centers

Post by pfdietz » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 11:59 AM UTC

Der_Einzige wrote: post #19

pfdietz wrote: post #13

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Solar power in space is potentially very cheap; solar on a ship is not. The heat problem has demonstrable solutions that people who are physics challenged can't seem to get themselves to accept.

You think the heat problem has solutions in space? Good luck! Unfortunately this is a harsh mistress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%E2%80%93Boltzmann_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_cooling You don't in fact have viable solutions to this problem when orbital launch prices are above like 100USD per ton, probably needs to be closer to 20USD per ton.

Post by Der_Einzige » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 10:19 PM UTC

pfdietz wrote: post #71

Der_Einzige wrote: post #19

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You think the heat problem has solutions in space? Good luck! Unfortunately this is a harsh mistress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%E2%80%93Boltzmann_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_cooling You don't in fact have viable solutions to this problem when orbital launch prices are above like 100USD per ton, probably needs to be closer to 20USD per ton.

You confused $/kg with $/ton.