David Cantrell 🏏<p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DataCentres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataCentres</span></a> ... in ... SPAAAAAACE!!!!! is the most ridiculous news story so far this year. Even more ridiculous then <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Trumponomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trumponomics</span></a> or <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MichaelFabricant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MichaelFabricant</span></a>'s glorious hair. <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjewvpkw7weo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjewvp</span><span class="invisible">kw7weo</span></a> If you need so much computering that you can't just use a small modern computer then you're going to need cooling for that. Cooling takes about 45% of the power budget for a DC on Earth, and is MUCH HARDER in a vacuum where you can't use the atmosphere or a river as a heat sink.</p>