Space is so expensive that you can power it pretty much any way you want and it will be cheaper. Nuclear reactor, LNG, batteries (truck them in and out if you have to). Hell, space based solar and beam it down. Why would there ever be an advantage to putting the compute in space?

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cmsj 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Get those penguins doing something productive for once, put them on treadmills!

	▲	idontwantthis 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Or burn them in a furnace. Pretty much any way you can think of to accomplish something on earth, is vastly cheaper, easier, and faster than doing it in space.