NovaSpace：2026太空数据中心白皮书：探索算力发展全新前沿（英文版）（13页）.pdf

1、May 2026Space Data Centers Exploring the Next Frontier in Computing1|Foreword2|Evolutionary logic of the compute shift to space3|Rationale for space data centers4|Current and future use cases5|Blueprints for possible implementations6|Costs of space data centers7|Required building blocks 8|Key player

2、s&projects9|Outlook&possible future trajectoriesTable of Contents31|Foreword As humanity enters an era defined by artificial intelligence(AI)and ubiquitous connectivity,digital infrastructure is becoming asfundamental to civilization as energy,transportation,and water.The systems that power modern l

3、ife cloud computing,financial markets,logistics,communications,research,and others now depend on vast and growing computational capacity.Inmany respects,humanityis beginning toorganizeitselfaround continuousaccess todata,compute,and machine intelligence.Training and operating advanced AI systems req

4、uires enormous amounts of energy,cooling,materials,and physical security.Asthese demands accelerate,terrestrial infrastructure alone maybecome increasingly strained by the competing pressures of cost,land use,grid capacity,resilience,and environmental impact.The question is no longer only how to bui

5、ld bigger data centerson Earth,but whether some part of humanitys future industrial and computational base should ultimately expandbeyond it.In this context,space data centers emerge as part of a broader proposition:that the growth of human industry neednotremain bound entirelytoEarths surface.As ac

6、cess tospace improves,it becomes possible toimagine a gradual migration ofselected heavy industries and digital infrastructure into space.If energy generation,large-scale manufacturing,resourceprocessing,and computation can increasingly occur off-world,then Earth itself could be relieved of some of