Data centres in space: less crazy than you think
ELON MUSK thinks it will be feasible “within two years, maybe three at the latest”. Sam Altman of OpenAI says it is “ridiculous…we are not there yet”. Google plans to test the concept next year. Eric Schmidt, its former boss, has bought a rocket-launch company to pursue it. At issue is the question of whether the best place to build data centres for artificial intelligence is not on Earth—but in space.
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