“Just think: You could get 24/7 energy from solar panels—it's always sunny in space—and the thermal stuff wouldn't be...
“Just think: You could get 24/7 energy from solar panels—it's always sunny in space—and the thermal stuff wouldn't be an issue because it's so cold out there. You could do the heavy processing in orbiting data centers and beam the results back to Earth just like satellite internet. That's the claim, anyway. Could this really work? Or is it about as practical as colonizing Mars? I asked Google's AI Overview, and it said, 'Yes, data centers can be built in space.' But of course it would say that. I think we'll have to go full renegade and dial up some old-fashioned human intelligence on this.”
https://www.wired.com/story/could-we-put-ai-data-centers-in-space/