When Anant Goenka, Executive Director of The Indian Express, asked about putting data centres in space, Altman quipped, saying the idea was ‘ridiculous’. “Putting data centres in space with the current landscape is ridiculous. Someone like Musk views space-based data centres as a near-term necessity to bypass Earth’s resource constraints. In order to circumvent these limits, some tech companies and startups are exploring orbital data centres. However, space-based data centres also raise new questions, especially because there are currently no clear rules governing such infrastructure.

Source: Indian Express February 22, 2026 15:50 UTC