After the moon, here comes space: Red Hat and Axiom Space want to convince you to store your data in orbital data centers
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The prototype will run a number of off-world tests on the ISS
  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    Anything that needs a lot of data. Same reason you’d download something to your PC instead of streaming it.

    Also for local processing before upload. If you have a huge data set that compresses well, it’s much better to compress first, then upload to Earth.