As futuristic as Google's project may seem, it solves one of the biggest problems currently facing the US.

Besides the enormous demand for chips, there's an even bigger problem right now: energy.

I often bring this up in conversations: China is currently building (or starting to build) around 46 nuclear power plants and will have installed as much solar capacity in 2025 alone as the US has in the last 10-15 years. In the early 2030s, energy and the aging power grid will become the biggest bottleneck for the US.

Not chips, but energy.

And here, China is currently way ahead in the race. To put it bluntly, they've "solved" the energy problem for themselves, and the US is lagging behind. Moving inference or even training into space and using satellite swarms close to the sun to capture energy (about 8 times more efficiently than on Earth) could solve all the problems at once: energy, scaling, and the grid problem.