{"id":988730,"date":"2026-01-30T09:07:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988730"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:20:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:50:48","slug":"why-does-elon-musk-want-to-put-ai-data-centers-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/30\/why-does-elon-musk-want-to-put-ai-data-centers-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does Elon Musk want to put AI data centers in space?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A proposed merger between Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX and xAI, reported exclusively by Reuters \u2060on Thursday, could give fresh momentum to Musk&#8217;s plan to launch satellite data centers into orbit as he battles for supremacy in the rapidly escalating AI race against tech giants like Alphabet&#8217;s Google, Meta and OpenAI. <\/p>\n<p>Here is what we know about space-based AI computing:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposed merger between Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX and xAI, reported exclusively by Reuters \u2060on Thursday, could give fresh momentum to Musk&#8217;s plan to launch satellite data centers into orbit as he battles for supremacy in the rapidly escalating AI race against tech giants like Alphabet&#8217;s Google, Meta and OpenAI. Here is what we know about space-based AI computing:<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988730","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=988730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}