AI Labs Look To Space For Their Data Center Needs

Sean Moran Investigative Reporter, Technology August 29, 2026 12:10 PM ET Data centers were once thought to be a driving force for economic growth. Now, Americans don’t want them in their backyards. Could space be a better fit? Data centers started sprawling across most of the American South and the Midwest as politici

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on Wednesday suggested housing data centers in space amid mounting controversy surrounding the facilities’ growing presence in the U.S. “Let’s take our data centers, put them in Earth orbit, take advantage of that free fusion reactor that’s out there for us and use that to ensure we do