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Elon Musk’s bold new plan to put AI in orbit isn’t as crazy as it sounds
Elon Musk believes the best way to solve the difficulties of building AI data centers on earth is to move them into outer space. His merger this week of his rocket company SpaceX with his artificial intelligence company xAI could help get them there.
“The only logical solution…is to transport these resource-intensive efforts to a location with vast power and space. I mean space is called ‘space’ for a reason,’†Musk wrote Monday when announcing the merger.
Musk has successfully launched ambitious projects before, like developing mass market electric vehicles and creating reusable rocket engines to carry people and cargo into space. This time, Google, OpenAI and others are also looking to create data centers in space
Voyager Technologies CEO says space data center cooling problem still needs to be solved
Voyager Technologies CEO Dylan Taylor said two years would be an "aggressive" time frame for space data centers and that cooling remains a problem for the developing technology.
While SpaceX has the heavy lift rockets to bring components to space, Taylor told CNBC's Morgan Brennan that the lack of a cooling solution to transfer the heat remains a major barrier.
"It's counterintuitive, but it's hard to actually cool things in space because there's no medium to transmit hot to cold," he said. "So essentially, all heat dissipation has to happen via radiation, which means you need to have a radiator pointing away from the sun to do that."
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Why did SpaceX just apply to launch 1 million satellites?
SpaceX says it wants to deploy an astronomical number of data centres in orbit to supply power for artificial intelligence, but the proposal might not be entirely serious
We are only a month into 2026, yet it’s already clear what one of the major space stories of the year is going to be: mega-constellations, and the ongoing attempts to launch thousands of satellites into Earth’s orbit.
The latest development is that SpaceX has asked the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for permission to launch 1 million orbital data centre satellites. The request is unprecedented. The previous largest filing with the FCC, also by SpaceX, was for 42,000 Starlink satellites in 2019.
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