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At the same time as China launches satellites with high performance processing power. What's the deal? How can launching everything into space be cheaper than building a data center at a cold place on earth?
Last time I read something about processors in space, NASA used special processors that were hardened against radiation. If state of the art processors are too fragile for space, who would use such a data center?
In low earth orbit the radiation is less of an issue. The bigger issue is actually heat dissipation.