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The stratosphere has also been found to play an important role in understanding life origins as it hosts life forms. The use of stratosphere based computing platforms however requires the hosting of multiple server payloads (requiring high energy consumption) at a higher altitude. In addition, smaller server payloads lead to smaller sized stratospheric computing platforms (SCPs) which limit interaction with stratospheric organisms. However, these challenges are not considered when designing SCPs. Hence, there is a risk of wrongly evaluating the power usage effectiveness (PUE) associated with SCPs. In addition, there is a risk of installing and deploying large sized SCPs thereby leading to contamination and limiting research potential on studying life forms. The research being presented proposes an intelligent architecture enabling the identification, selection and use of only light weight servers aboard SCPs. The incorporation of the intelligent architecture is observed to enhance the PUE by 43.9%. In addition, the use of the intelligent architecture is noted to enhance the overall PUE by 59.6% for hosting altitudes spanning the low to mid stratosphere regions. 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