If we take Elon Musk’s biographer at his word, space will be the “artificial intelligence” of 2027. That vision may well gain traction if Musk’s rocket company SpaceX secures a US$1.77 trillion valuation when it debuts on the sharemarket on Friday.Musk has talked up SpaceX putting AI data centres, AI satellites and supercomputers in space. His hypothesis is that space provides uninterrupted solar power and removes the cooling burden that terrestrial data centres struggle with.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
Artificial Intelligence boom: Australia risks losing data centre boom to copyright and energy challenges
The question is whether our political class can overcome self-imposed barriers on energy, planning and copyright to seize this golden opportunity before it slips through our fingers.














