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After the Democratic Party won the election, it became more difficult to expand data centers due to pressures on electricity bills, financing, and local opposition. Musk and Google together accelerated the deployment of space computing.
Building a ground data center is becoming more difficult. Is it possible that AI will accelerate into space? After the midterm elections, Elon Musk wrote on X: “Data centers in space are looking pretty attractive right now.” This sentence reflects the new political resistance to the expansion of data centers.
texas Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa advocates an immediate moratorium on new data centers until legislation strengthens community protections and eliminates tax incentives. Voters’ dissatisfaction with rising electricity bills is putting more pressure on AI infrastructure.
The Wall Street Journal quoted Morgan Stanley analysts as saying the election results could accelerate Musk’s push for a space data center. They feel,spacex The goal of adding 10GW data center capacity next year is even more difficult to achieve. Morgan Stanley estimates it could add only 5.7GW. Hurdles include financing, chips, electricity and local opposition.
Space computing has made real progress. Google announced on October 30 that the data center-level TPU carried on the Project Suncatcher prototype satellite has successfully performed an AI task: Ground personnel sent instructions to the Gemma 4 model on the satellite to write a poem with the theme of being in space, and successfully received the task returned.
Musk’s layout also happened before the elections. Nvidia announced in August that the first-generation StarmindAI satellite planned by SpaceXAI will use a customized Vera Rubin NVL72 system.
But the coolness of space doesn’t mean the chip dissipates heat easily. Google explained that there is no air flow in the vacuum, and it is testing heat dissipation through heat pipes and radiators. It must also overcome the problems of radiation and satellite high-speed interconnection; The next step will be to test the interconnection of the two satellites in 2027.
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Voter dissatisfaction with rising electricity bills has made energy-intensive AI infrastructure like data centers more vulnerable to political backlash. Coupled with local communities demanding stronger security and restrictions, expansion has become increasingly difficult.
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He advocated an immediate moratorium on the construction of new data centers until legislation is enacted to strengthen community safety, as well as eliminating tax incentives, indicating that local governments can use policy tools to suppress the continued expansion of data centers.
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Google has successfully used data center-level TPU on the satellite to execute the Gemma 4 poetry mission, but space still faces problems such as heat dissipation, radiation, and high-speed interconnection. The next step is to test the interconnection of the two satellites in 2027.
