If things weren’t already frothy enough around AI, now the excitement is headed toward the moon—literally.

The world’s richest men are earnestly talking about traveling to outer space to build gigantic data centers to run artificial-intelligence models among the stars. They argue such missions make the most sense for powering energy-hungry operations. 

“The moon is a gift from the universe,” Jeff Bezos recently said when talking about the benefits of lunar development and using it as a base for launching projects in space. 

Read more in the Wall Street Journal here.

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