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SpaceX, Elon Musk's rocket and launch company, is moving to position itself in the market for orbital artificial intelligence data centers as public opposition to Earth-based facilities intensifies.
The economic case for putting compute infrastructure into orbit, however, remains an open and contested question.
The NIMBY Problem Reaches the Server Farm Community resistance to AI data centers on the ground has become a material constraint on the industry's expansion.
The facilities draw objections over power consumption, water use, and local infrastructure load — objections that have grown alongside the rapid scaling of AI model training.
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