The Orbital Data Center Hype Machine Is Already in Orbit
“The lowest-cost place to put AI will be in space, and that will be true within two years, maybe three at the latest,” SpaceX founder Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum in Davos this past January, as his company was preparing to go public.Later t…
Why the economics of orbital AI are so brutal
A 1 Gw orbital data center would cost roughly $42.4B—almost three times its ground-bound equivalent.