Tech Asia: The AI space race: US and China bet big on orbital data centers
Asia supply chain gears up as Google, Nvidia and startups shoot for the stars
PALO ALTO, California/TAIPEI -- Travis Beals spent two years trying to dismiss an idea that his Google colleague came up with: putting data centers in space, powered by the sun.
"It turned out, we couldn't," said Beals, senior director of Paradigms of Intelligence, a research team at Google that works on frontier AI and other cutting-edge technologies.