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Orbital Computing Promises Power But Creates New Challenges
A new legal analysis warns that moving computing infrastructure into space could create difficult questions over cybersecurity, data ownership, liability, and orbital debris. The working paper, ‘Governing Orbital Data Centers in the New Space Race,’ examines how existing international space law and U.S. regulations would apply to satellites used to store data, train AI models, or run AI applications. According to the researchers, orbital data centers would not operate beyond the reach of the law, despite being located outside any nation’s territory. This was first reported by Unknown Source.