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Peter Howson, Assistant Professor - Geography and Development, Northumbria University, Newcastle

Why AI’s environmental footprint won’t disappear into orbit

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AI companies increasingly want to move their operations into space. Elon Musk’s SpaceX has applied to launch over a million AI data centre satellites and ultimately build them on the moon.

Jeff Bezos, Google, OpenAI and others have similar plans. The idea is to harness 24/7 solar energy and, in Bezos’s vision at least, to move all polluting industries off-world, re-zoning Earth for humans and nature.

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