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Sam Altman and Elon Musk traded barbs on social media about space data centers for AI inference, with experts concurring that the concept won't be economically viable until cheaper rockets and mass-produced high-powered satellites are available, likely not until the 2030s.
Discusses the feasibility of space data centers, arguing that Elon Musk's timeline is unrealistic while Google projects commercial viability only by the mid-2030s due to high launch costs and engineering challenges like heat dissipation, radiation, and hardware replacement.
The article argues that the real bottleneck for AI is not compute power but software reliability in long multi-step tasks, suggesting that even orbital data centers won't fix the fundamental issues with agent drift and failure detection.