SpaceX orbital AI datacenter cooling debate ends with netizens asking Grok to do the math
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-03
A viral screenshot captures the argument over cooling feasibility for SpaceX's orbital AI compute plans. Highlights: a claim that "radiators work largely because of convection" gets slapped down with "convection is pretty difficult when there's no air"; someone dares skeptics to "do the math" on radiator sizes; and one user simply asks @grok to compute the radiator dimensions for AI-equipped SpaceX satellites and show the work. Poster teortaxesTex mocks the whole genre as midwittery and predicts these "European intellectuals" will go functionally extinct in a decade.
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