“You’re going to have to spend incredible amounts of money to keep them from melting. And you could solve that problem much easier by not launching them into space.” theintercept.com/2026/01/12/da

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@theintercept "On Earth, you can remove a boiling kettle from the stove and the energy within will gradually transfer to the surrounding air, cooling the vessel and its contents back to room temperature. In space, there is no air, water, or other medium to which one can transfer heat, thus the coldness of space would do nothing to cool a scorching hot piece of silicon. “If you put a GPU in space and powered it, it would melt,” said Buckley."

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