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How is Space a Legitimate Option for Expanding AI Data Centers

Abstract

With a growing and more complex demand for technology, the physical land mass needed for data centers will inevitably exceed safe limits. That being said, moving data centers to space is a legitimate option for this expansion to compensate for the demand. Questions about this arise from the feasibility of this task, as it is complex to carry out. The way electricity will be handled, the cost of this operation, and how communication will work between the satellites and Earth are all major setbacks associated with this operation. In the past, people have launched satellites and other forms of spacecraft into orbit, all of which communicate with Earth and have their main computational tasks done on Earth. However, with the growing demand for computers, these satellites will need to have their own compute power capable of tackling the complex data that is handled in ground data centers. The goal for this research is to uncover the general feasibility (power and weight constraints) of this topic. The collected data will consist of quantative data from relevant companies in the space. A synopsis of the research details that there are not systems in place to power these systems in space, it would take multiple trips to put these servers into space, and new sattelite linking technology would need to be developed.The significance of my findings is that AI companies will be presented with concrete evidence as to how space industrialization may be an option for the expansion of their business.

Keywords: Space, Ai, Cloud Computing, Industrialization