> The frigid vacuum of space should make cooling easier, too, because cooling systems are more efficient when the ambient temperature is lower.
(EDIT: I removed a significant amount of snark here - sorry dang!)
While greater ambient temperature differences do affect radiative cooling, this effect is, in almost all situations, dwarfed by the lack of any kind of conductive or convective cooling due to the aforementioned vacuum. If radiators can be made of indefinite size, there are ways to make this viable, but the construction and maintenance of such an array to handle the wattage of any sizeeable AI datacenter would be far beyond any space project we've done to date.
> The frigid vacuum of space should make cooling easier, too, because cooling systems are more efficient when the ambient temperature is lower.
(EDIT: I removed a significant amount of snark here - sorry dang!)
While greater ambient temperature differences do affect radiative cooling, this effect is, in almost all situations, dwarfed by the lack of any kind of conductive or convective cooling due to the aforementioned vacuum. If radiators can be made of indefinite size, there are ways to make this viable, but the construction and maintenance of such an array to handle the wattage of any sizeeable AI datacenter would be far beyond any space project we've done to date.