So the guy who shows his work says 3.4x and the guy who doesn't says 50-100x.
OP here.
man who quotes big number - often made a fool
man who quotes big number - often made a fool
Somehow I don't think those are the only options. AFAIK Starlink is using a lot of non-rad-hard silicon already.
The numbers don't quite work out in favor of orbital datacenters at the current values. But we can tell from analyses like this what has to change to get there.