AGI as an Alien Mind: Will the First True AGI Be Extraterrestrial?
<p>As AI’s appetite for compute collides with the limits of power grids, land, water, and local politics, a new frontier is emerging: orbital data centres. This episode explores how SpaceX’s financial pivot into AI infrastructure, huge hyperscaler contracts, and the promise of space-based compute could reshape the economics of artificial intelligence—and turn low Earth orbit into the next industrial platform. </p><p>But the dream of putting AI in space comes with brutal physical realities: cooling chips in a vacuum, surviving launch vibration, radiation damage, launch costs, carbon debt, orbital debris, and the need for asteroid mining and in-space manufacturing. At the heart of it is a bigger question: if intelligence keeps scaling, can Earth alone supply the infrastructure it demands? I’ve been using AI deep research to do the research and NotebookLM to create a podcast in the hopes of learning more about this once-in-a-lifetime AI revolution, which I’ve made public here through this channel.</p><p></p>