Related: How does the Laboratory work?
I had a orbital station with 1x Mobile Processing Lab (MPL-LG-2) in LKO. With another small vessel I did a tour of Mun and Minmus, collecting science as I went and finally docking with the station. Now I've got way too much data being processed way too slow.
If I dock another MPL (or 2), will they work my existing station? Will I be able to process data faster? Do they interact? Or should I just launch another MPL to rendezvous (but not dock) and manually transfer the science?
Best Answer
You can store additional data (analysed science) in additional labs but if they are connected to the same structure, the science must be different to what you've already analysed to be allowed to analyse it though (as opposed to having several labs disconnected from each other allowing the exact same science experiment to be used in each lab).
Data will not be processed faster per lab, but having two labs will allow twice the processing.
The rate is determined by how much data is in the lab, and the level and number of all scientists in the complex, not just in the labs.