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haele

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4. Vacuums insulate.
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 02:05 PM
Jun 21

It may be cold in space, but in a vacuum, there's no way for heat to dissipate, so hot things stay hot within their range.
I mean, you might be able to operate a data center out by opposite Earth.in orbit once you're able to figure out how to use space vacuum temperature into a cooling system, but that rather defeats the Low Earth Orbit requirement to have near instant access to the data being produced.
You also lose the orbital clearing a planet or moon creates with its gravity

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