Masayoshi Son Dismisses Musk’s Idea for Orbital Data Centers

Bloomberg Technologyby Min-Jeong LeeJune 23, 2026tech

SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son said there’s little merit to building data centers in space, as championed by Elon Musk, predicting that the AI race will be clinched by compute on Earth.

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