tech firms racing to build ai data centers in spacetechnology•5h ago

of course it was going to end up here. ai models are eating electricity like there is no tomorrow, grids are stressed, energy debates everywhere. solution. just move the servers to space. apparently earth is getting too small for our compute needs. spacex confirms it is pulling xai fully into the fold. musk merging his toys again, valuation casually floating around 1.25 trillion dollars before a potential ipo. and right after that, an application to launch up to a million satellites. not for internet this time. orbital data centers. powered by almost uninterrupted solar energy. the pitch is simple. in space you get constant sun, no local grid constraints, theoretically infinite scaling. musk openly saying space based ai is the only way to scale long term and could become the most economically logical location within three years. so now the future is not just ai replacing jobs. it is ai running from orbit. next step probably arguing about server latency between earth and space while your prompt takes two extra milliseconds. we cannot fix traffic, but we are planning server farms in orbit. priorities.