Google, SpaceX, and Blue Origin Plan to Put AI in Space. Will It Produce Skynet or Untold Economic Abundance?

Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk race to catapult AI data centers into space: 'We are nearing that point'

Powering and cooling the data centers that fuel the AI boom is a major problem. Thus, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are dreaming up a solution that is literally out of this world, and arguably too good to be true. What's happening? The Wall Street Journal reported on efforts by Musk's SpaceX and Bezos' Blue Origin to build orbital AI data centers — satellites equipped with advanced computing chips for data centers that employ space-based solar power.…

Google, SpaceX, and Blue Origin plan to put AI in space. Will it produce Skynet or untold economic abundance?

NIMBY opposition is forcing some Big Tech companies to consider locating their data centers in space. Is that a good idea?

The scramble to launch data centers into space is heating up

Baiju Bhatt, co-founder of space-based solar company Aetherflux and Robinhood Financial LLC, speaks during the TechCrunch Disrupt 2018 summit in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. A startup developing technologies to harness solar power in space is throwing its hat in with big tech companies attempting to build out data centers that orbit Earth. The US-based company, Aetherflux, announced on Tuesday that it plans to la…

Galactic Brain: US Firms Plan Space-Based Data Centers

The space cult wants to take AI and power generation to run it, well, to space. This is the first step toward their futuristic vision of conquering the universe with AI, tapping into the data flows to understand how it works. Hard-core space cult leaders include Elon Musk (who wants to colonize Mars with Technocracy), Eric Schmidt (member of the Trilateral Commission), and Jeff Bezos. Harvesting power from space using solar panels to beam it bac…