alt Hacker News> Infrastructure owners with access to the cheapest energy will be the long run winners in AI.
For a sufficiently low cost to orbit that may well be found in space, giving Musk a rather large lead. By his posts he's currently obsessed with building AI satellite factories on the moon, the better to climb the Kardashev scale.
The performance bottleneck for space based computers is heat dissipation.
Earth based computers benefit from the existence of an atmosphere to pull cold air in from and send hot air out to.
A space data center would need to entirely rely on city sized heat sink fins.