Orbital datacenters are a pie-in-the-sky idea: Gartner

Orbital datacenters are a pie-in-the-sky idea: Gartner

Feb 25, 2026

Analyst firm Gartner thinks talk of placing datacenters in space has reached “peak insanity,” because orbiting facilities can’t be run economically or satisfy demand for compute power on Earth. “Datacenters in space won’t analyze data on Earth for Earth applications...
How datacenters use water and why kicking the habit is

How datacenters use water and why kicking the habit is

Jan 4, 2025

Feature The explosive growth of datacenters that followed ChatGPT’s debut in 2022 has shone a spotlight on the environmental impact of these power-hungry facilities. But it’s not just power we have to worry about. These facilities are capable of sucking...