THE FUSE

My son Joseph works in AI in the Netherlands after having finished his graduate degree there. On a recent visit to Amsterdam he scolded me for my recent reporting on space-based data centres. From where he sits, in the centre of industry, surrounded by serious techies, the whole enterprise looks like a boondoggle. Too many challenges. Too much hype. IPO pumping. Future financial disasters and engineering failures a foregone conclusion. I was not being critical enough, he chided.