Space data centres face same underwater challenges


Joe Brock
Contributor

SpaceX on Wednesday filed for an IPO that Elon Musk says will bankroll an effort to turn the rocket maker into an AI powerhouse, launching up to 1 million data‑centre satellites into orbit to bypass power and water limits on Earth.

Microsoft had a similar ambition to escape land‑based computing constraints in 2015, when it lowered a shipping‑container‑sized data centre onto the seabed off Scotland, aiming to cut energy use …

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