{"id":344638,"date":"2026-02-19T03:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/344638\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T03:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:43:13","slug":"if-only-there-were-a-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/344638\/","title":{"rendered":"‘If Only There Were A Company’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over the weekend, SpaceX<\/strong> CEO Elon Musk<\/strong> reacted to comments from former Google<\/strong> CEO Eric Schmidt<\/strong>, who warned the U.S. needs an additional 92 gigawatts of power to sustain artificial intelligence growth.<\/p>\n

Musk shared a video clip of Schmidt saying, U.S. is “running out of electricity.” He also noted that the average nuclear plant generates about 1.5 gigawatts.<\/p>\n

“If only there were a company that could do this,” Musk wrote on X <\/strong>while sharing the clip, referring to the emerging need for data centers in space.<\/p>\n

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Schmidt’s warning highlights a mounting energy bottleneck as AI systems require massive data centers, intensive cooling and round-the-clock power.<\/p>\n

Previously, venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya<\/strong> also cautioned that electricity rates could double within five years without structural changes.<\/p>\n

Previously, Amazon.com, Inc.<\/strong> (NASDAQ:<\/a>AMZN<\/a>) founder Jeff Bezos<\/strong> predicted that within two decades, orbital data centers could rival the cost of terrestrial facilities.<\/p>\n

In December 2025, Alphabet Inc. <\/strong>(NASDAQ:<\/a>TSLA<\/a>) Sundar Pichai <\/strong>reaffirmed the company’s Project Suncatcher, a plan to test small orbital data center<\/a> prototypes by 2027.<\/p>\n

The concept aims to harness uninterrupted solar power in space and potentially reduce cooling constraints.<\/p>\n

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Pichai described the effort as a “moonshot,” similar in ambition to Waymo, saying early test racks would evaluate reliability and thermal management in orbit.<\/p>\n

Earlier in November, Pichai said the initiative is feasible only because of Musk’s space venture SpaceX’s<\/strong> significant breakthroughs in launch technology.<\/p>\n

This month, SpaceX acquired Musk’s AI startup<\/a> xAI<\/strong> in a deal that values the combined company at $1.25 trillion. The newly formed SpaceX-xAI entity is expected to go public later this year to help finance Musk’s vision of deploying data centers<\/a> in space.<\/p>\n

Matt Garman<\/strong>, CEO of Amazon Web Services<\/strong>, has said that space-based data centers are “not economical” today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the weekend, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reacted to comments from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who warned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[270],"tags":[986,18,1647,59326,55382,85946,19,17,133,451,2731],"class_list":["post-344638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-data-centers","tag-eire","tag-elon-musk","tag-eric-schmidt","tag-fast-company","tag-google-ceo","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space","tag-spacex"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116095235279731648","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}