Comment by habinero

> The moon is very cold in surface shadows and below the surface. It is an enormous pre-chilled heat sink

Technically true, but not really. "Radiative cooling" is heat loss through thermal radiation and it's really ineffective. We use air cooling / water cooling for a reason.

Satellites and spacecraft are engineered to make sure they can shed enough heat and they use a fraction of the power a datacenter would. All that energy eventually gets turned into heat, and it has to go somewhere.

It's a ridiculous idea that's never going to make even a tiny bit of economic sense.