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Science fiction is fiction
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Data centres in space? Jeff Bezos says it's possible reuters.com/business/energy/data-centres-space-jeff-bezos-thinks-its-possible-2025-10-03
Exploring a space-based, scalable AI infrastructure system design https://research.google/blog/exploring-a-space-based-scalable-ai-infrastructure-system-design/
Starcloud-1 satellite reaches space, with Nvidia H100 GPU now operating in orbit datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/starcloud-1-satellite-reaches-space-with-nvidia-h100-gpu-now-operating-in-orbit
Data centers gobble Earth’s resources. What if we took them to space instead? grist.org/climate-energy/data-centers-gobble-earths-resources-what-if-we-took-them-to-space-instead
Why we should train AI in space (PDF) starcloudinc.github.io/wp.pdf
Starcloud-2 starcloud.com/starcloud-2
Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/
Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical and use energy sustainably news.microsoft.com/source/features/sustainability/project-natick-underwater-datacenter
Microsoft scrapped its ‘Project Natick’ underwater data center trial — here’s why it was never going to work itpro.com/infrastructure/data-centres/microsoft-scrapped-its-project-natick-underwater-data-center-trial-heres-why-it-was-never-going-to-work
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Data Center Watch worries that anti-AI activism is working pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/17/data-center-watch-worries-that-anti-ai-activism-is-working
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Science fiction is fiction
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/01/ai-data-centres-in-space-why-dcs-in-space-cant-work - text
Patreon: patreon.com/davidgerard
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Sources:
Data centres in space? Jeff Bezos says it's possible reuters.com/business/energy/data-centres-space-jeff-bezos-thinks-its-possible-2025-10-03
Exploring a space-based, scalable AI infrastructure system design https://research.google/blog/exploring-a-space-based-scalable-ai-infrastructure-system-design/
Starcloud-1 satellite reaches space, with Nvidia H100 GPU now operating in orbit datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/starcloud-1-satellite-reaches-space-with-nvidia-h100-gpu-now-operating-in-orbit
Data centers gobble Earth’s resources. What if we took them to space instead? grist.org/climate-energy/data-centers-gobble-earths-resources-what-if-we-took-them-to-space-instead
Why we should train AI in space (PDF) starcloudinc.github.io/wp.pdf
Starcloud-2 starcloud.com/starcloud-2
Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/
Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical and use energy sustainably news.microsoft.com/source/features/sustainability/project-natick-underwater-datacenter
Microsoft scrapped its ‘Project Natick’ underwater data center trial — here’s why it was never going to work itpro.com/infrastructure/data-centres/microsoft-scrapped-its-project-natick-underwater-data-center-trial-heres-why-it-was-never-going-to-work
Previously on Pivot to AI:
Data Center Watch worries that anti-AI activism is working pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/17/data-center-watch-worries-that-anti-ai-activism-is-working
video: youtube.com/watch?v=nPbTXEOJEVM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
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