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