A new space-industry trend is emerging as startups that want to place AI data centers in orbit are now talking with insurers about how to cover the risks of those facilities.

The insurance concept is driven by the enormous energy demands of AI, with proponents arguing that space offers abundant solar power and potentially fewer terrestrial constraints.

Space companies have spoken with insurers about coverage for orbital AI data centers, a sign ‌of early progress for an experimental industry backed by Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin.

David Wade, space underwriter at Atrium, said venture-capital-backed startups would have to expand before there would be a major insurance market for orbital data........

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