Even the Sky May Not Be the Limit for A.I. Data Centers - The New York Times

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A.I. data centers may exhaust earth's land and energy, prompting tech leaders to explore orbital deployment for unlimited space and solar power.

OpenAI Stargate: where the US sites stand
OpenAI's $500 billion Stargate project has seven US sites under construction totaling over 9 GW, with 0.3 GW already operational in Abilene, Texas.
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Demand for AI Data Centers Sends Prospectors Hunting for Land and Power - The New York Times
Former Microsoft executive Brian Janous and his firm Cloverleaf act as modern land men, packaging electricity and land to meet AI data center demand.
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Exclusive | Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Race To Bring Data Centers to Space - WSJ
SpaceX and Blue Origin are racing to develop orbital AI data centers, aiming to bypass Earthly power constraints despite major engineering and cost hurdles.
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The SpaceX IPO and Data Centers in Space – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
SpaceX's $2T IPO lacks financial justification, but data centers in space for agentic AI inference could make the valuation plausible.
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SpaceX's newest Starmind will make earth data centers obsolete
SpaceX plans to deploy Starmind, a constellation of one million AI compute satellites in orbit, aiming to make terrestrial data centers obsolete.
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