Environmental Orgs Say Space-Based Data Centers Could Violate Federal Law
A group of environmental advocacy organizations is claiming that the race to build data centers in Earth’s orbit is not only potentially harmful to the environment, but it might also be illegal. The solution Silicon Valley has proposed in response to mounting public outrage against data center projects is to move them up to space. Elon Musk’s SpaceX alone is planning to launch an orbital data center constellation of up to 1 million Starlinks.
- ▪A group of environmental advocacy organizations is claiming that the race to build data centers in Earth’s orbit is not only potentially harmful to the environment, but it might also be illegal.
- ▪The solution Silicon Valley has proposed in response to mounting public outrage against data center projects is to move them up to space.
- ▪Elon Musk’s SpaceX alone is planning to launch an orbital data center constellation of up to 1 million Starlinks.
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A group of environmental advocacy organizations is claiming that the race to build data centers in Earth’s orbit is not only potentially harmful to the environment, but it might also be illegal. In a petition filed jointly by the non-profits Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Environment America, and DarkSky International, the groups are asking the Federal Communications Commission to pause its licensing of orbital data center projects until “the completion of a rigorous examination of the risks, alternatives, needs, costs, and impacts of this sudden transformation of Earth’s…
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