I don’t understand the motivation. The cooling and radiation resistance on orbit make satellites a very challenging and expensive place to deploy computing. Can they even use standard server chips for this? Or does it have to be something more exotic?

They state it reduces reliance on ground based computing, but it’s not obvious what would make use of this computing power other than ground based systems. Is this for processing sensor data prior to downlink? Is this for censorship of a starlink style internet constellation? Is there some military purpose?