Let’s Build AI Data Centers in Space | Philip Johnston | TED

Key Takeaways

• 1This time next week, I will be at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base, nervously awaiting the launch of our first spacecraft.
• 2This spacecraft represents the first step in a much larger vision to build almost all data centers in space.
• 3But first, why do we need more data centers?
• 4Some forecasts suggest that over the next three years alone, we will need an additional 50 to 100 gigawatts - equivalent to 50 to 100 new nuclear p...
• 5A few weeks ago, I visited Tucson, Arizona, which recently became the first city in the US to unanimously vote to reject a new gigawatt-scale data ...