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I would look into a data management/hosting company on Mars. Companies prospecting for resources there or doing science will be generating alot of data, but you can't exactly send everything to Earth right away because there will be various issues with the long distance connection. Your best bet is to have alot of it hosted and managed locally while sending the interesting data to Earth for further use. There are similar things done on the ISS: https://www.wired.com/story/the-iss-has-a-supercomputer-never-mind-the-fried-disks/
>HPE's Mark Fernandez, who oversaw the project, says the idea behind putting a supercomputer in space was to help the astronauts do more science on their own. “There’s a lot of 4K cameras and videos on ISS looking for something,” he says, for example hunting through reams of data for a type of cloud, lightning strike or temperature gradient in the ocean. "We should do that kind of general-purpose image processing on board and save that bandwidth for other things.”

Aside from the communication issues, you'd be saving companies money so they don't have to ship hardware and people to Mars to manage the data. You'd be doing it for everyone.

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