there is high military value in space based compute. Centralized datacenters on earth are “easy targets”. It a lot harder of low end opponents to strike a satelite, even more so if its many.

Also it makes the latency shorter to the drones on the front lines.

Imagen FPV drones, but they transmit picture strait to low earth orbit datacenter where compute happens. This keeps the ping low and the compute hardware on the drone itself cheap.