Not just data centres, this Japanese engineer wants to build computer chips on Moon

Atsuyoshi Koike has a dream that is ‘literally’ out of this world. He wants to manufacture computer chips on the Moon. Koike leads Rapidus, a Japanese government-backed tech company founded in 2022, and with billions of dollars in funding, company wants to muscle its way back to the top of the global semiconductor industry.

According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, if everything goes according to plan, Rapidus will start mass-producing cutting-edge microchips next year but Koike says that manufacturing chips on the moon may be a reality in 2040s.