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Is the moon too far for your data? IBM's Red Hat is teaming up with Axiom Space to send a data center into space (www.techradar.com)
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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day 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.