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>>wiley1+(OP)
What does space give us that Earth does not in this scenario? Free real estate? They only mention falling costs for deployment.

>>zamale+ub
There's an answer in their whitepaper[0] - see Table 1. tl;dr - power is continuous and free via solar array

[0] - https://starcloudinc.github.io/wp.pdf

>>dilyev+vc
> “We still don’t appreciate the energy needs of this technology… there’s no way to get there without a breakthrough… we need fusion or we need radically cheaper solar plus storage or something” -Sam Altman

It's kind of depressing that the only way to make this tech better is to feed it more energy. (And apparently now to send it to space)

>>cj+Ne
It's also interesting that everyone is convinced the same capabilities can't be realized with drastically less compute.