A Polymarket joke says data centers may be launched into space next year
Polymarket · x · 2026-07-21
A joking reply to the Bloomberg datapoint says there is a 24% chance data centers get launched into space by the end of next year.
It’s a lightweight AI-infrastructure joke riffing on the rising power demand problem rather than a substantive update.
Related event: US Data Center Power Consumption to Hit 20% by 2035(4 posts)→
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