Musk's Physics Illiteracy & Orbital Data Centres
Musk confuses cooling a hot object in space with a cold object in space. A vacuum eliminates cooling via convection or conduction. Consequently, cooling in space is much slower than on Earth. Only thermal radiation is available and simulations demonstrate that objects cool much slower in space than on earth. An object without internal heating will settle down to 3 Centigrade degrees above absolute zero. But an orbital data has plenty of internal heat and it can easily overheat if the radiators are not sufficiently large. What is scary is that Musk has the title of SpaceX CTO and he is clearly unqualified given his physics illiteracy. Click to enjoy the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1umCJfbJ0w.