Stop taking their insane claims at face value. For one, space isn’t “cold.” It’s a vacuum. Cooling in space isn’t “free” as Musk et al. claim because there’s no medium (like an atmosphere) to move the heat. The ISS uses a dual-loop system of water and ammonia to convert heat to infrared radiation.
Agreed. This is a winning issue. And it’s not even entirely about the structures themselves or their energy use. “Data center” has become an affective trigger signaling the ever-growing pile of inequalities and injustices foisted upon the working class by billionaire robber barons.
Is it carbon monoxide
What would our current digital infrastructure look like if heat and materiality were central to defining the concept of “information?” How different would/could it be?
This is the entire world economy.
Honestly, this makes sense. We need more luddite-inflected country music opposing data centers. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
It didn’t have to be this way. The current data center heat issue is not just a material problem but an epistemic one that stems in part from debates at The Macy Conferences that led to the omission of heat and materiality from early foundations of information theory. meson.press/wp-content/u...
