Space Race: Sending Data Centers Into Orbit Is Crazy. Go For It.

Why not just build them in space?As data centers face rising costs, strained resources and growing political opposition, a number of entrepreneurs — Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Eric Schmidt — have raised the possibility of processing and storing data aboard satellites in low-Earth orbit, using large solar arrays for power. It’s a crazy idea, and well worth supporting.Data centers are an essential element of the digital economy, powering everything from cloud computing to artificial intelligence. Prob