{"id":1016317,"date":"2026-06-23T08:38:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016317"},"modified":"2026-06-23T08:50:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:20:26","slug":"ais-power-hunger-sparks-race-for-space-data-centres-but-costs-remain-3-times-higher-than-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/23\/ais-power-hunger-sparks-race-for-space-data-centres-but-costs-remain-3-times-higher-than-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"AI\u2019s power hunger sparks race for space data centres, but costs remain 3 times higher than Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As artificial Intelligence drives an unprecedented surge in computing demand, SpaceX and xAI have announced plans to deploy 100 GW of orbital computing capacity annually \u2014 ten times the combined announced pipeline of all other orbital data centre developers globally \u2014 highlighting growing industry interest in moving data infrastructure beyond Earth. <\/p>\n<p>But despite the momentum, the economics remain daunting, with a hypothetical 1 GW orbital data centre estimated to cost $170 billion, more than three times the cost of an equivalent terrestrial facility, according to a report by Wood Mackenzie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As artificial Intelligence drives an unprecedented surge in computing demand, SpaceX and xAI have announced plans to deploy 100 GW of orbital computing capacity annually \u2014 ten times the combined announced pipeline of all other orbital data centre developers globally \u2014 highlighting growing industry interest in moving data infrastructure beyond Earth. But despite the momentum, the economics remain daunting, with a hypothetical 1 GW orbital data centre estimated to cost $170 billion, more than three times the cost of an equivalent terrestrial facility, according to a report by Wood Mackenzie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016331,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016317\/revisions\/1016331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}