Okay we all hate Musk, but calling the cooling of a datacenter in space “easy” is correct if you read “easy” as “something we already know how to do,” which is kind of how he talks. Pretending to dismiss the idea simply because space is a vacuum ignores realities like the ISS.
Anyway, if you want an explanation of cooling a space datacenter, this video by physicist/astronomer Scott Manly explains it in exhaustive technical detail. There’s some pretty good layman’s language at around the 15-minute point.
TL;DR: Yes, you could cool a large datacenter in space by doing various things we already know how to do.
Okay we all hate Musk, but calling the cooling of a datacenter in space “easy” is correct if you read “easy” as “something we already know how to do,” which is kind of how he talks. Pretending to dismiss the idea simply because space is a vacuum ignores realities like the ISS.
Anyway, if you want an explanation of cooling a space datacenter, this video by physicist/astronomer Scott Manly explains it in exhaustive technical detail. There’s some pretty good layman’s language at around the 15-minute point.
TL;DR: Yes, you could cool a large datacenter in space by doing various things we already know how to do.