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> No, I’m saying it’s stupid to put this on the moon.

I agree with that. Just not for the heating/cooling reasons.

> Where will you get the immense energy needed to melt supercooled ice?!

The problem was too much heat. Now it's too little heat. You can't have both. The energy comes from the server farm. The coolant comes from the ice. You melt your first ice with the heat from the server farm (or an initial solar field).




The ice isn’t in one place, it’s spread around in the regolith at varying densities. How do you collect and melt it? Sure you have heat and nothing to do with it but your ice isn’t all in a neat pile. My point is that you can go on and on like this and come up with a thousand ways the project will fail before it’s even started. Anyways, I’m done arguing, we both agree it’s stupid but just for different reasons.




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