China Backs Orbital Data Center Push

China has provided large credit lines (reported $8.4 billion) to an orbital data‑center startup, signaling moves to extend cloud and AI compute infrastructure into space. Space‑based data centers change where compute lives, who controls it, and how jurisdictions and physical attack surfaces shift. — If states and firms put major compute capacity into orbit, it raises new questions about sovereignty, export controls, resilience, and the geopolitics of AI infrastructure.