Can Elon Musk really run AI in space?

马斯克要在太空训练 AI

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2026-02-25

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No one can accuse Elon Musk of lacking ambition. His latest idea? Launching data centres into space, where abundant solar energy and very low temperatures could solve the challenges of power and cooling. To help make this happen, he is merging SpaceX, his rocket and satellite-broadband company, with xAI, his artificial-intelligence lab, ahead of a planned stockmarket flotation. It is the kind of audacious bet that has made the world’s richest man both admired and derided. Other companies are also touting the benefits of orbital data centres. How would they work? Do the numbers add up? And what does all this reveal about the state of AI more broadly? Tom Standage, our deputy editor, and Alex Hern, our AI writer, consider the evidence.
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  • Hello and welcome back to Inside Tech.

  • I'm Tom Standage, Deputy Editor at The Economist,

  • and with me is my co-host as usual, Alex Hern, our AI Writer.

  • Hello Alex.

  • Hello Tom.

  • You've just been in India, haven't you for the AI Impact Summit.

  • So how was that?

  • Yeah, it was really interesting.

  • I think India is trying to work out where it wants to stand in the global AI sector, right.

  • On the one hand, it's a proud enormous nation that rankles a bit

  • at being told that AI is a two-horse race.

  • It wants to be up there with America and China as the big three.

  • On the other hand, it's also got this ambition

  • to be in charge of the leader of a middle powers alliance.

  • And I think that summit was it really trying to work out which of those it was going for

  • while also hosting a quarter of a million attendees.

  • An enormous event.

  • Wow, that sounds huge.

  • Okay.

  • Well, today we're going to be talking about AI not in India,