Elon Musk says SpaceX doesn't need "magic" to put AI data centers in space—and he may be right.
As AI's appetite for power keeps growing, Earth's energy infrastructure is becoming a bottleneck. Space-based data centers powered by near-continuous solar energy could offer a radically different path forward.
The idea sounds like science fiction today. But then again, reusable rockets once did too.
The bigger question isn't whether SpaceX can launch AI compute into orbit - it's whether space becomes the next frontier in the race for artificial intelligence.
If that happens, the future of cloud computing may not be on Earth at all.
