Wistron has opened a new manufacturing plant in Fort Worth, Texas, to produce NVIDIA AI systems, representing a $700 million commitment to advanced manufacturing in the US. The plant will create over 500 new jobs and produce tens of thousands of boards per month. This development is expected to have a significant impact on the AI industry and the US economy.

While the vision of orbital data centers running AI promises unprecedented compute power, a recent IEEE Spectrum report, shared by Slashdot, critically assesses the immense technical and economic hurdles. Despite Elon Musk's ambitious predictions, the reality check underscores that space-based AI infrastructure remains far from practical, highlighting significant challenges in manufacturing, launch capacity, and especially, thermal management for powerful chips like NVIDIA's H100.