The Globe and Mail reports in its Friday edition that if the architects of the artificial-intelligence boom are right, it is only a matter of time before data centres -- the giant computing facilities that power AI -- will float in orbit and be visible in the night sky like planets. A New York Times dispatch to The Globe says the science-fiction-like dream is being driven by AI and space industry leaders who are growing increasingly worried that data centres will eventually require more energy and land than are available on Earth. The solution? Start building them in space. Google announced in November, 2025, that it was working on Project Suncatcher, a space datacentre project that would begin test launches in 2027. Elon Musk said at a recent conference that space data centres would be the cheapest way to train AI "not more than five years from now." Others pledging support for the idea include Jeff Bezos (Amazon and Blue Origin), Sam Altman (OpenAI), and Jensen Huang (Nvidia). "It is not a debate -- it is going to happen," said Philip Johnston at Starcloud, a space data-centre start-up. "The question is when." The notion has gained support as the AI race hits a fever pitch, fuelling fears of a potential bubble.