An aerial view of an Amazon Web Services Data Center known as US East 1 in Ashburn, Virginia, US. Experts believe space data centres could be commercially viable in about a decade. — Reuters
NEW YORK: Tech firms are floating the idea of building data centres in space and tapping into the sun's energy to meet out-of-this-world power demands in a fierce artificial intelligence race.
US startup Starcloud this week sent a refrigerator-sized satellite containing an Nvidia graphics processing unit (GPU) into orbit in what the AI chip maker touted as a "cosmic debut" for the mini-data centre.
