The horrors of AI\u2019s environmental impact may extend beyond Earth as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman looks into launching data centers to space.<\/p>\n
Altman was reportedly considering investing billions into Stoke Space, a Seattle-based startup that\u2019s developing a reusable rocket, to gain a controlling stake in the company, according to The Wall Street Journal<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n AI goes to space <\/p>\n More than 5,000 AI data centers<\/a> currently exist in the United States, a number that\u2019s expected to increase exponentially over time. These massive facilities are already putting a strain on the country\u2019s electricity grid, but it\u2019s only going to get worse from here.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The electricity demand of AI data centers<\/a> are projected to see a 50% increase by 2027, and as much as 165% by 2030, according to a report by Goldman Sachs<\/a>. Companies such as OpenAI are pouring billions into building new high-capacity facilities to meet the growing demand of artificial intelligence, but even the executives behind big tech realize that there is a limit to how many data centers they can build on Earth.<\/p>\n \u201cI do guess a lot of the world gets covered in data centers over time,\u201d Altman said during a recent podcast interview, Wired reported<\/a>. He did, however, offer an alternative solution. \u201cMaybe we put [data centers] in space,\u201d he said. \u201cI wish I had, like, more concrete answers for you, but like, we\u2019re stumbling through this.\u201d<\/p>\n By deploying data centers to space, Altman is envisioning the facilities feeding off of the Sun\u2019s energy through solar panels. Altman had also previously suggested building a Dyson sphere<\/a> to harness energy from the Sun and feed the growing demand of AI data centers<\/a>. It\u2019s clear that he is overly fixated on finding a solution to the growing data centers problem within the vastness of space.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not clear whether OpenAI will reach a deal with Stoke Space, which is hoping to compete with SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket with its own fully-reusable, medium-lift vehicle called Nova. Altman\u2019s investment in Stoke would also likely further fuel his feud with SpaceX\u2019s founder Elon Musk, which began over their disagreement on the future of OpenAI. By entering the business of space, Altman could just hit two birds with one stone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The horrors of AI\u2019s environmental impact may extend beyond Earth as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman looks into launching…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,9564,2747,61],"class_list":["post-326863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-data-centers","tag-sam-altman","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}