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Spacebound AI: What happens when cloud and data centres take orbit 

As AI’s energy appetite grows, engineers are taking the cloud into orbit. From orbital data centres to lunar storage vaults, humanity’s information is reaching for the stars, powered by constant sunlight, cosmic cooling, and a vision of digital resilience beyond Earth. João Marques Lima reports. 

By João Marques Lima

Founder and Editor, The Tech Capital

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Far above the deep indigo of Earth’s horizon, where sunlight slices through the void, engineers are imagining a new frontier for humanity’s information: moving the cloud itself into orbit. The idea is as audacious as it is logical. With AI’s energy demands growing faster than terrestrial grids can handle, and land for large data campuses becoming scarce, why not take the problem to space?

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