Good morning. Any hyperscaler worth its silicon these days needs a plan for data centers in space. Elon Musk talked up the idea earlier this month to justify his merger of xAI and SpaceX. And Google is also on the record about its interest in taking data centers to the next frontier.
But how soon might any of this actually happen? And does it even make sense to put data centers in space? Fortune’s Sharon Goldman has taken a deep dive on the issue, so you can answer these questions at this weekend’s cocktail party.
Today’s tech news below.
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