China vs SpaceX in race for space AI data centers

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If your phone heats up while running AI, imagine what happens inside a massive data center. Now imagine moving that data center into orbit.

That is exactly what China and Elon Musk are planning. It is a serious race to build space-based AI data centers powered by sunlight in space.

At stake? The future of artificial intelligence, energy dominance and who controls the next layer of digital infrastructure.

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China and Elon Musk are racing to build solar-powered AI data centers in orbit, aiming to ease Earth’s growing energy strain.

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China’s main space contractor, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, outlined a five-year plan to build what it calls “gigawatt-class space digital-intelligence infrastructure,” according to reporting cited by CCTV. While that phrase may sound bureaucratic. It is not.

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Gigawatt-class means massive energy output. Think industrial scale. These proposed orbital hubs would integrate cloud, edge and device-level computing. In simple terms, data collected on Earth could be processed in space instead of inside giant warehouses in Arizona or Inner Mongolia.

The vision goes even further. A December policy document describes an industrial-scale “Space Cloud” by 2030. The goal is deep integration of computing power, storage and transmission bandwidth, all powered by solar energy in orbit. China also signaled that space-based solar power tied to AI computing will be a core pillar of its upcoming 15th Five-Year Plan. It’s all part of its national strategy.

Meanwhile, Elon Musk is making a similar bet. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Musk said SpaceX plans to…

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