Terrestrial data centers are so 2025. We're taking our large-scale compute infrastructure into orbit, baby! Or at least, that ...

Data centers are hot. Literally. In the U.S., data centers burn through more than 4% of total annual energy consumption, says the Pew Research Center—a figure that is expected to grow by more than 130 ...

Elon Musk believes that space is the answer to the AI data center energy problem. SpaceX says it is hiring "many engineers" to make it happen.

PORTO, Portugal--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Leaders in data space technology are converging at the Gaia-X Summit, in Porto November 20-21, to address the imperative of interoperability within and across data ...

By Akash Sriram and Joey Roulette Feb 4 (Reuters) - Seventy-five years ago, the idea of harnessing the power of the skies was little more than fantasy spun by futurists like Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac ...

As artificial intelligence devours ever more electricity and water, some of the world’s biggest tech players are floating a radical fix: lifting parts of the cloud into orbit. The idea is simple to ...

What if the future of computing wasn’t bound to Earth? Imagine data centers orbiting our planet, harnessing the unfiltered power of the sun, cooled by the vacuum of space, and shielded from ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how digital impacts business and future of work Should tech companies achieve more efficient AI computing in space, ...

Until now, the business of trying to put data centers in space has been on the speculative fringes of the digital infrastructure landscape — exclusively the territory of futurists and long-shot ...

CEOs at big data technology companies sound off on what they see as the opportunities for channel partners in 2026.

The space race is back – but unlike the battle between the political superpowers in the 60s, this one is between tech corporations looking to explore data processing potential above the clouds. Google ...

The European space industry is booming. Yet despite the boom, the industry is struggling to find commercial buyers for arguably its most valuable output: data. At the Living Planet Symposium 2025 in ...