75
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2026
75 points (97.5% liked)
Technology
85021 readers
1603 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
What part of radiator don't you understand?
What you don’t understand is the size requirements those radiators would need to have to cool an entire data center.
It's conserved.
Right. Exactly zero understanding on your part.
Zero effort shit post. Cool.
Do you ever make posts that demonstrate what your opinions are or what your own thoughts are or do you just like to talk about other people and put them down cuz it makes you feel better?
My opinion and thoughts: dunking on idiots online brings me joy.
So I guess the last one I suppose. If I just had to pick one.
They honestly come off as that sophomore in college that had a single class on something so are going around talking about it smugly. They complain about zero effort shit posts when they do the same thing.
You really don't seem particularly bright. So I did the math, just to double check.
A 1 gigawatt datacenter radiating at 100C would need a square kilometer in radiator surface area to sufficiently reject/emit the heat.
But then you need energy. With solar panels you'd need 2-3 sq km to sustain 1 GW.
So.... The math checks out. I don't understand your arguments from ignorance.
Tell me you don't know how radiators actually work without telling me. They dissipate heat via convection through the air surrounding them or gasses in general. What does space lack a significant amount of?
Radiators dissipate heat through...wait for it...
Radiation.
Right... and a carpet is a pet you keep in your car, got it.
Yeah so there is some confusion here. The are radiators on cars or in houses, but those are more accurately heat exchangers. Then there are things like heat lamps, which are really IR radiators that convert electricity to infrared light that feels hot.
Most of the heat you feel at a camp fire is radiant from the flame, unless you are down wind and feeling some convective heat, but most of that heat goes straight up with the smoke.
There's a difference certainly but do you think the people who seem to be floating this idea know the difference?