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This article explores the feasibility of offloading AI workloads to orbital facilities to bypass terrestrial energy constraints and environmental concerns. While full-scale implementation remains distant, current practices already process satellite imagery in orbit before transmitting results back to Earth. The concept hinges on using space-based solar power for computation while ejecting heat into the vacuum, fundamentally altering where data processing occurs rather than how it is performed.

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How would AI data centers in space even work? A former NASA robotics chief explains

ZDNetJuly 27, 20265 min read

'You collect electricity in space, and you eject heat in space. The only thing that comes to Earth is data.'

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. A robust space-based future lies ahead for the IT industry. It's still too expensive to launch data centers, but costs are dropping. Robots and predictive analytics will play a crucial role in maintenance. In the very near future, some or all of your workloads and data may be processed in space-based data centers. But will you notice? Probably not, a former NASA leader has predicted. A robust space-based future lies ahead for the IT industry, said Dr. Robert Ambrose, former chief of NASA's Software,…

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