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Data Centers Are Drinking Your Water. What if We Just... Moved Them Off the Planet?
America's AI boom is colliding with America's water bills and power grids — and towns are fighting back. Which makes one company's weird question suddenly serious: what if the data center just... left Earth?
The Crowded Sky
The same hunger that turns a perfect empty peak into a zoo is now pointed upward — and this time, there's nowhere else to paddle.
Orbital data centers: Elon Musk’s newest “why not” and the carbon math behind it
Musk, after folding xAI into SpaceX, is pitching “data centers in space”: satellite-based compute powered by solar energy to dodge Earth’s grid and politics. It’s alluring, messy, and launch-heavy: ~580 car-years of CO2 per Falcon Heavy launch.