Think Tank: Europe Must Push for Space-Based Data Centres

Think Tank: Europe Must Push for Space-Based Data Centres

While the United States and China push for advanced in-orbit cloud computing, Europe lags behind. That’s the key claim in a new report from the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI), which grapples with the growing demand to relocate part of the global economy’s increasing demands for artificial intelligence (AI) energy consumption and processing power. ESPI suggests about €70 million euros ($81 million) of private capital has moved into space-…