Sam Altman Calls Elon Musk’s Space Data Center Plan “Ridiculous,” Ignites AI Infrastructure Clash

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly rejected Elon Musk’s ambitious plan to build data centers in space, calling the idea “ridiculous” and saying such infrastructure won’t matter at scale this decade.

Altman raised the stakes on the future of AI infrastructure during remarks in New Delhi, framing the disagreement as a clash over where the next era of compute s…