The horrors of AI’s environmental impact may extend beyond Earth as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman looks into launching data centers to space.

Altman was reportedly considering investing billions into Stoke Space, a Seattle-based startup that’s developing a reusable rocket, to gain a controlling stake in the company, according to The Wall Street Journal . The talks between Altman and Stoke took place over the summer and picked up in the fall. Although no deal has been made yet, Altman intended on either buying or partnering with a rocket company so that he would be able to deploy AI data centers to space.

AI goes to space

More than 5,000 AI data centers currently exist in the United States, a number that’s expected to increase exponentially over time. These massive facilities are already put

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