Master of the universe: Musk wants to take data centres to space |
Conceptually, it is difficult to fathom which of these notions is more difficult to get your head around. The first is Elon Musk adding more than half a trillion dollars to his incredible wealth, and the second is how he plans to reach this goal – by building data centres in space.
Even in the world of Silicon Valley’s bold claims, moonshot ideas and blue-sky values, this one feels next level. It’s making Musk look increasingly like the poster boy for extreme universal capitalism.
Elon Musk has proven to be the world’s greatest salesman. Will he make that the best salesman in the universe?Credit: AP
But in a world experiencing data centre fever thanks to the booming artificial intelligence race, even the notion of populating space with this infrastructure will get an investment case hearing.
Down here on Earth, the appetite for these data centres’ processing power seems bottomless, while the immense energy and water resources needed to operate them are limited. Here in Australia, where the data boom is in its nascent stage, it has