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4Hardware·Jun 23

Masayoshi Son Dismisses Musk’s Idea for Orbital Data Centers

SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son stated that the global race for artificial intelligence supremacy will be decided by terrestrial computing power rather than infrastructure located in space. His comments directly contrast with Elon Musk’s proposal to establish orbital data centers, suggesting that Son sees little practical value in moving high-performance hardware off-planet to support AI development.

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