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I'm pretty sure 200km of fibre isn't going to be cheap either
Fibre is just strands of extruded glass; one of the most common substances on earth.
Sure beats the blood minerals needed for memory, and to scale up, you just extrude longer strands.
there is a bit of surplus of fibre wire in Ukraine, i hear… /s
I'm not sure which job sounds less appealing; collecting it or splicing it
could be cheaper than enterprise grade DIMMs.
Probably cheaper than tens of thousands of satellites.