India, May 26 -- In December, a discussion that had long existed mainly in academic and aerospace circles touched a broader audience when Lado Okhotnikov, founder of Holiverse, publicly suggested that the long-term energy needs of artificial intelligence might eventually require solutions that go beyond terrestrial power systems. Among the possibilities he raised was the idea of harvesting solar energy in space and transmitting it down to Earth to support AI infrastructure. Okhotnikov also stated that his team is exploring this direction.

The suggestion was not presented as a near-term solution or a roadmap for implementation, but as a means of highlighting the scale of the challenge ahead: AI's accelerating demand for reliable, continuo...