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How does he cool those wafers?
by petesoper 3y ago
How does he cool those wafers?
- cushychicken 3y ago“Put the servers somewhere cool.” No joke. That’s his plan.
- aziaziazi 3y agoLet's build it on the crest of a lunar crater. Wafers on the shade side and solar panels on the sunny one. “Just” add some $Bs to send the stuff up in the space.
- wolrah 3y agoShaded or not, cooling is actually a problem in space because radiating heat in to a "vacuum" is hard. Even a warm atmosphere is easier to transfer heat to than almost nothing. Now a ground source heat pump could be interesting as long as it's not too hard to drill for the plumbing.
- georgehotz 3y agoAnd...it's a good plan. There's two cooling problems, pulling heat off the wafer (water cooled loop or immersion cooling, this is easy) and dumping the heat somewhere. The second part is why the place being cool matters, I imagine a big radiator on the roof. Could also dump the heat into a river if it's chill.
- Turskarama 3y agoI think the modern strategy is to have the whole thing under water.
- cushychicken 3y agoYou and I have real different meters for "easy", George.
- theolivenbaum 3y agoEverything is easy if you don't have to actually go through with your plan