The scramble to launch data centers into space is heating up

Baiju Bhatt, co-founder of space-based star institution Aetherflux and Robinhood Financial LLC, speaks during the TechCrunch Disrupt 2018 acme successful San Francisco, California, U.S., connected Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018.

A startup processing technologies to harness star powerfulness successful abstraction is throwing its chapeau successful with large tech companies attempting to physique retired information centers that orbit Earth. The US-based company, Aetherflux, announced connected Tuesday that it plans to motorboat its archetypal information halfway outer successful aboriginal 2027 - the archetypal portion of a larger constellation of satellites it's calling the "Galactic Brain."

Tech companies are moving into carnal limits to their AI ambitions connected Earth - namely needing much abstraction and energy for information centers. One imaginable solution they're exploring is to effort sending immoderate of those information centers into orbit, wherever they could tally o …

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