Datacenters in the sky? China Bids on the AI-Space Nexus
In just over a year, China has built an ecosystem dedicated to orbital data centers.
A Long March 8 carrier rocket carrying a new satellite group blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site, June 5, 2026 in Wenchang, Hainan, China. Credit: Luo Yunfei/China News Service/VCG via AP Images
“Let’s take our data centers, put them in Earth’s orbit, take advantage of that free fusion reactor that’s out there for us and use that to en
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A new book provides searing testimonials of how the Chinese Communist Party’s thought remolding and coercive interrogations continue under the legal obfuscation of “residential surveillance at a designated location”.
The former State Department official in the Biden administration talks about leading the first talks with China on AI, and what the realistic goals should be of any dialogue between the two superpowers about the...
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