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It's no longer Mars, it's the Galaxy. Must be a prank site?
At one point people stop believing in these grandiose marketing stunts. I hope the time is now.
For anyone out there who might know:

To achieve a Type II civilization, is a Dyson Swarm currently the best theoretical approach or are there others that are more promising?

> 10 Million Tons of mass/year launched into orbit

Not something to be proud of...

> Cost of compute on Earth

    Power build
    Permitting
    Operating costs
    Land
    Energy costs
    Infrastructure
    Cooling
> Cost of compute in space

    Launch cost
    Operating costs
    Satellite build
    Infrastructure
I thought it was pretty hilarious that they removed "cooling" as a requirement for orbital compute when it's actually way harder to keep something cool on a satellite than on earth. There is no matter floating around in orbit to dump heat into...