Everyone has been talking about datacenters in space. Interviews given by Elon Musk in the past few months have spent lots of time on orbital compute:“Five years from now, my prediction is we will launch and be operating every year more AI in space than the cumulative total on Earth... I would expect to be at least, sort of five years from now, a few hundred gigawatts per year of AI in space and rising.”- Elon Musk on Dwarkesh Podcast, February 2026Furthering space-based compute was also one of ...