UII UPDATE 448 | DECEMBER 2025
Intelligence Update
Data centers in space: sky high costs, astronomical challenges?
OPINION
One evening somewhere around 2015, the CTO of a global data center infrastructure company was talking excitedly over cocktails. “Within a decade,” he told analysts and customers, “we’ll be building the next generation of data centers in space.” His chief executive was listening (as were we) and quietly called him aside. “Keep it real,” the CTO was told. “We’re a serious company. It gives a bad impression.”
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