Elon’s Space Data Centers: Because Earthly Servers Are Too 2020

KEY POINTS

•Elon Musk’s SpaceX aims to launch a million satellites as orbital data centers starting this year, leveraging their recent xAI acquisition.
•OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called the idea 'ridiculous' during a New Delhi interview in February, citing high launch costs and repair challenges.
•Google’s Project Suncatcher plans sun-powered space data centers by 2027 while communities in Texas and Oklahoma resist Earth-based data center expansions.

In a cosmic clash of tech titans, Elon Musk’s SpaceX is gearing up to launch a ‘constellation of a million satellites’ that double as orbital data centers, boldly ignoring Earth’s pesky power grids and water shortages. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, speaking from Earth’s cozy surface in New Delhi this February, dismissed the idea as 'ridiculous,' citing launch costs and the headache of fixing chips in space — a job roughly as easy as finding a USB port on a spaceship. Google’s ‘Project Suncatcher’ wants in too, promising solar-powered data clouds by 2027, because why not? On Earth, residents of Texas and Oklahoma are staging data center protests like they’re the new rock bands. It’s a data center arms race with Musk shooting for the stars and Altman firmly slapping his grounded reality check.

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When one billionaire wants a million data satellites in orbit and the other laughs in New Delhi, you know the tech bros' space race has officially left Earth’s atmosphere and common sense behind.

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