If space-based AI computing is the future, SpaceX is ideally placed to operate AI-ready satellite clusters or facilitate the setting up of on-orbit computing. "It's a no-brainer building solar-power data centres in space ... the lowest-cost place to put AI will be space, and that will be true within two years, three at the latest," Musk said at the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this month. Part of the proceeds would go to funding the development of AI data centre satellites, sources say. The company ultimately envisions a modular “hypercluster” of satellites providing about five gigawatts of computing power, comparable to several hyperscale data centres combined. China also plans to create a "Space Cloud" by launching space‑based artificial intelligence data centres over the next five years, state media reported on Thursday.