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On Monday, Elon Musk announced that he was merging two of his companies<\/a>, SpaceX and xAI, in a deal said to be worth $1.25 trillion. The reason, Musk said in an announcement<\/a>, was that in order for AI to grow, it needed to go to space. <\/p>\n

AI relies on \u00ab\u00a0large terrestrial data centers\u00a0\u00bb that run on \u00ab\u00a0immense amounts of power and cooling,\u00a0\u00bb he said, which comes at great expense to the environment and community opposition. The solution: data centers in space. \u00ab\u00a0In the long term, space-based AI is obviously the only way to scale,\u00a0\u00bb Musk said.<\/p>\n

Musk isn’t the only one looking to launch data centers into orbit. Google has Project Suncatcher<\/a> to build solar- \u2026<\/p>\n

Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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