Data centers in outer space emerge as solution to AI's massive energy requirements

Surging demand for energy to power artificial intelligence (AI) data centers is reaching new heights as companies are pursuing plans to station data centers in space.

Billionaire entrepreneurs Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, and Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin, have signaled they're working on developing data centers to be stationed in space, which would allow the energy-intensive data centers to be cooled more cost efficiently than on Earth, given the strain they impose on the electric grid.