On Tuesday, tech billionaire Elon Musk endorsed ARK Invest's chief futurist Brett Winton's prediction that putting data centers in orbit could become cheaper and more efficient as AI demand skyrockets. AI's Growing Demands Push Innovation Beyond Earth As artificial intelligence workloads surge, traditional land-based data centers face soaring costs for power and cooling. Winton explained on X that on Earth, the 100th gigawatt deployed will almost certainly be more costly, complex and time-intensive than the first, but in space, the opposite is true. "The 100th orbital GW could be 1/3rd as costly as the 1st," Winton wrote. Musk shared Winton's post, calling ARK's insights "great. " Elon Musk Bets On Space To Power AI With Solar Satellites Musk has been betting on orbit as the future of AI, making it central to his $1. 25 trillion plan to merge SpaceX with his struggling startup xAI. He plans to take the merged company public this year and predicts that fleets of solar-powered satellites...