Across the globe, the rapid deployment of AI infrastructure is running up against physical limits. Rather than technology, AI data centers currently face constraints caused by access to power, water for cooling, and delays in receiving building permit approvals that in some cases now stretch for seven years.
Providing a potential alternative, orbital data centres are moving from being purely theoretical to technically feasible. While they won’t meet every need, they do offer a way to bypass terrestrial bottlenecks, when they are expected to come online in the next 5-7 years.
