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gambitingyesterday at 10:42 PM3 repliesview on HN

So what exactly is the benefit of having that thing in orbit then, where it costs you millions of dollars to put it there?


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Footnote7341yesterday at 11:47 PM

The current bottleneck on compute is power and zoning. Solar panels are 5x more efficient in space, and there is no zoning in space.

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lijoktoday at 2:54 AM

Millions of dollars? Where did you get that number from?

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dzhiurgistoday at 12:23 AM

Self destruction is a feature, not a bug.

That said eventually they can be lifted to higher orbits and have robots deliver and swap updated compute (if not made in space itself!).