The Biggest Risk to A.I. in Space Is Sitting on the Ground

Space-based AI data centres depend on terrestrial ground stations for data downlink and network connectivity, creating a critical vulnerability that receives minimal security investment despite being easier to disrupt than hardened Earth-based facilities. As Meta, Google and SpaceX pursue orbital computing to solve energy constraints, the resilience bottleneck is not in orbit but in the handful of ground stations connecting satellites to users. If you're building or securing ground stations for space compute, you're now protecting the single point of failure for every orbital data centre on Earth—and nobody else is treating it that way yet. The money and talent flows to satellites; the actual vulnerability sits in an unremarkable building on the ground that's easier to jam or breach than any hardened terrestrial facility.