If the architects of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom are right, it is only a matter of time before data centres—the giant computing facilities that power AI—will float in orbit and be visible in the night sky like planets.
The science-fiction-like dream is being driven by AI and space industry leaders who are growing increasingly worried that data centres will eventually require more energy and land than are available on Earth. So one solution—perhaps the only solution, they say—is to start building them in space.
Google announced in…
