Data centers are being built at a frantic pace all over the world, driven by the AI boom. That’s why some folks are saying we should build data centers in space. You could do the heavy processing in orbiting data centers and beam the results back to Earth just like satellite internet. I asked Google’s AI Overview, and it said, “Yes, data centers can be built in space.” But of course it would say that. There's really no other energy changes in the computer, so all 300 watts of power coming in must equal the power going out.