[amluto]

I still don’t see it. The equipment is very, very expensive, is subject to shortages, and has residual value after five years. But these very low Earth orbit satellites literally burn up when they run out of fuel for station keeping.

Even if you pay a bit more to position them in a higher, more stable orbit, you still can’t physically get to them to repurpose equipment.

Check this datacenter gadget out:

https://www.marvell.com/blogs/sustainable-computing-with-cxl...

That trick is a complete nonstarter if the modules you’re trying to reuse are in space.

[datadrivenangel]

Even with order of magnitude improvements on the state of the art they're still looking at ~10x the price per installed and powered unit of compute.