In addition to hardware costs, power generation and delivery and cooling requirements will be among the main constraints for massive AI data centers in the coming years. X, xAI, SpaceX, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk argues that over the next four to five years, running large-scale AI systems in orbit could become far more economical than doing the same work on Earth.
That's primarily due to 'free' solar power and relatively easy cooling. Jensen Huang agrees about the challenges ahead of gigawatt or terawatt-class AI data centers, but says that space data centers are a dream for now.
