In an ambitious plan to construct data centers in space to power artificial intelligence in the future, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has bought his AI startup, xAI. The billionaire, who also serves as Tesla’s CEO, made the announcement on the SpaceX website on Tuesday. According to Musk, the combination will help address the new challenge of meeting artificial intelligence’s power-hungry requirements.
He claimed that to meet AI demand, “immense amounts of power and cooling” will be required, which are unsustainable on Earth without “imposing hardship on communities and the environment. The only long-term solution is space-based data centers that use the Sun’s power,” Musk said.
Space-based AI is clearly the only approach to scale in the long run. It would take more than a million times as much energy to capture even a millionth of the energy from our Sun as our civilisation does now, he said.
Transporting these resource-intensive endeavours to a location with vast power and space is the only logical solution,” he added, forecasting that in the next “two to three years, the lowest cost way to generate AI compute will be in space.
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