As it happened: spacewalkers install new solar array
THE SO WHAT
Incremental ISS solar upgrades are a quiet reminder that high-availability compute — including for AI — ultimately sits on top of power infrastructure. If your roadmap assumes always-on cloud, it’s worth mapping how dependent you are on a small number of orbital and terrestrial power chokepoints.
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