From The Economist.

Elon Musk thinks the future of AI might not be on Earth at all—but in orbit.

On the latest episode of Inside Tech, Tom Standage and Alex Hern explore how orbital data centres would work, whether the numbers add up, and why this once outlandish concept is suddenly being taken seriously.

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00:00 – Why put data centres in space?
03:05 The numbers behind orbital compute
06:10 The race for AI dominance

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