MIT Technology Review: Four Things We'd Need to Put Data Centers in Space
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MIT Technology Review examines the growing — and increasingly serious — proposal to move data center compute to space, driven by terrestrial power constraints (half of planned U.S. builds delayed), geopolitical risk (Iran striking Gulf data centers), and cooling advantages of the vacuum. The piece identifies four technical prerequisites: launch cost reduction, space-rated networking, radiation-hardened chips, and orbital power generation at scale.