On Monday, Elon Musk announced that he was merging two of his companies, SpaceX and xAI, in a deal said to be worth $1.25 trillion. The reason, Musk said in an announcement, was that in order for AI to grow, it needed to go to space.
AI relies on « large terrestrial data centers » that run on « immense amounts of power and cooling, » he said, which comes at great expense to the environment and community opposition. The solution: data centers in space. « In the long term, space-based AI is obviously the only way to scale, » Musk said.
Musk isn’t the only one looking to launch data centers into orbit. Google has Project Suncatcher to build solar- …
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