Space AI Data Centers: The Sky Is Not the Limit
As global demand for AI computing power grows exponentially, terrestrial data centers face bottlenecks in energy, land, cooling infrastructure, and regulatory resources. Although initial deployment costs in space are high, the rising prices of terrestrial computing power will gradually narrow the gap between the two options.
When traditional infrastructure can't meet the explosive growth of AI needs, building orbital computing nodes or even lunar data centers becomes a rational choice. The space environment offers natural heat dissipation advantages that can significantly reduce energy costs, providing physical support for the long-term expansion of AI industries.
Bitcoin Mining: A Zero-Sum Game With Protocol Limits
In contrast, space-based Bitcoin mining faces fundamental economic barriers. Beyond network latency issues, the blockchain protocol's hard cap on block rewards (currently about 450 BTC daily) defines this as a zero-sum market.
- Network hash rate growth doesn't increase total revenue
- Miner earnings depend on relative hash rate share
- Transaction fee fluctuations can't change the overall landscape
Even with Bitcoin trading at $70,000, the industry's annual revenue ceiling remains around $10 billion. To justify building mining facilities covering the size of Venus, Bitcoin would need to reach $5 trillion per coin - an unrealistic scenario in the foreseeable future.