🚀 Data centers are going to space!
AI eats power like crazy. By 2030, data centers could push energy use up +165%. In the US alone, by 2028 they’ll gulp down 12% of all electricity — half still from fossil fuels.
The fix? Space. Up there it’s 24/7 sunlight, no clouds, no atmosphere. Launch costs dropped to $1500/kg, solar panels got lighter. Startups are already testing — one mini data center sent to the Moon (crashed, F in chat), another heading to orbit. Even Bezos and Schmidt are betting on it.
Downsides: radiation, zero upgrades, latency, huge costs. But one big win — no regulators, no neighbors whining about power bills. If costs drop, we’re looking at a revolution in how humanity stores and processes data.