Data Centres in space a fancy idea but Namibia a far more practical locality

By Peter Karon. * The global race for data sovereignty and AI processing power has sparked a debate that sounds like science fiction: Should we launch our data centres into orbit? While “orbital compute” has a futuristic ring to it, the answer to our digital hunger might not be found in the stars, but in […]


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