[tomasphan]

It would take roughly 5000 square meter area to cool a typical small data center heat output (1 MW). Not great, not terrible.

[UltraSane]

That is a very tiny amount of compute though.

[kibibu]

Apparently, OpenAI plan to build 250 GW of computing capacity by 2033.

To put that in space, based on your numbers, that's 1,250 square kilometers of cooling - an area roughly equivalent in size to Los Angeles

[iancmceachern]

That's a lot of weight to launch into orbit

[iancmceachern]

Yeah but these hyperscalers are building data centers that are 100 or even 1000 mW