Tech billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are accelerating a high-stakes battle to take artificial intelligence computing off the planet and into orbit, with both Blue Origin and SpaceX quietly developing technology for space-based data centers, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday (December 10).

Jeff Bezos’ aerospace firm Blue Origin has spent more than a year developing the core technologies needed to run AI data centers in space, the news outlet stated citing a person familiar with the effort.

Bezos predicted in October that gigawatt-scale data centers will be built in orbit within 10 to 20 years, eventually undercutting Earth-based facilities thanks to unlimited solar energy.

“We will be able to beat the cost of terrestrial data centers in space in the next couple of de

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