The next big technology step is to put data centers in place. Can it work?

This collage shows photos of Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship in flight, a data center in California and the International Space Station above Earth. Many photographs are shaped like parallelograms or trapezoids.

AFP via Getty Images and NASA/Collage by Emily Bogle/NPR Standing in front of a friendly crowd in March, Elon Musk laid out his plan for the future of his companies, and it was really out of this world. Musk announced that his space development company, SpaceX, which had recently merged with his artificial intelligence company, … Read more