By Laurie Chen BEIJING, Jan 29 (Reuters) - China plans to launch space‑based artificial intelligence data centres over the next five years, state media reported on Thursday, a challenge to Elon Musk’s plan to deploy SpaceX data centres to the heavens.

State media reported that China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, the country’s main space contractor, has committed to

Tesla aims to restart work on Dojo3, its previously abandoned third-generation AI chip. Only this time, Dojo3 won’t be aimed at training self-driving models on Earth. Instead, Musk says it will be dedicated to “space-based AI compute.

While AI chip production is growing, Musk warned that electricity generation is increasing at only 4-5% a year, creating a looming bottleneck for data centres worldwide.