I recently published an article on Space Economy on the italian news outlet Airpress. The article explains how the rapid growth of AI is pushing terrestrial data centers to their physical and energy limits, prompting companies to explore building data centers in space. In orbit, solar power is continuous, cooling is naturally provided by the vacuum, and falling launch costs could make this approach economically viable once prices drop below $200 per kilogram. Google, the startup Starcloud, and Chinese institutions are already developing early systems, including satellites equipped with TPU and GPU hardware. If current trends continue, future cloud infrastructure may move off-planet, with orbital data centers offering cheaper energy, passive cooling, and large-scale computing capacity.

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