It's an experiment to see how the chips hold up in the harsh vacuum of the cosmos.

OK, sometimes you have to fight the odds, push technology to the limit to make the unimaginable possible to achieve something great.
But I still do net see the benefit of putting data centers into space. Even after solving all those problems that are mentioned by the article, what is the upside compared to just building a data center with solar panels and a big battery down on earth? Even powering them with gas turbines seems to be more environment friendly and cost efficient than shooting thousands of rockets into space and have the data centers burn up in the atmosphere after 6 years.

  • Grimy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    It’s to control space weapons. Much harder to jam and bomb an automated grim Reaper AI when it’s in orbit and has access to the space lasers.