People attend a protest in the city of Linz, Austria on September 11, 2026, against the construction of new Google's data centre in the Upper Austrian town of Kronstorf. A planned Google data centre promises investment, jobs and a place on the digital map. But not everyone is convinced and local residents have staged protests against the centre. (Photo by Joe Klamar / AFP via Getty Images)

Max Haot, Belgian-American technology and aerospace entrepreneur and CEO of Vast, an aerospace company developing the world's commercial space stations, poses during a photo session in Paris on September 11, 2026. (Photo by Joel Saget / AFP via Getty Images)

Max Haot, Belgian-American technology and aerospace entrepreneur and CEO of Vast, an aerospace company developing the world's commercial space stations, poses during a photo session in Paris on September 11, 2026. (Photo by Joel Saget / AFP via Getty Images)

Max Haot, Belgian-American technology and aerospace entrepreneur and CEO of Vast, an aerospace company developing the world's commercial space stations, poses during a photo session in Paris on September 11, 2026. (Photo by Joel Saget / AFP via Getty Images)

Max Haot, Belgian-American technology and aerospace entrepreneur and CEO of Vast, an aerospace company developing the world's commercial space stations, poses during a photo session in Paris on September 11, 2026. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP via Getty Images)

Max Haot, Belgian-American technology and aerospace entrepreneur and CEO of Vast, an aerospace company developing the world's commercial space stations, poses during a photo session in Paris on September 11, 2026. (Photo by Joel Saget / AFP via Getty Images)

This aerial photograph shows the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), which hosts the Alps supercomputer, in Lugano, southern Switzerland, on August 27, 2026. Researchers who copied vast troves of NASA's climate and environmental data onto drives connected to a Swiss supercomputer expect its artificial intelligence modelling to accelerate a life-saving forecasting revolution underway. (Photo by Elodie LE MAOU / AFP via Getty Images)

Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) director Thomas Schulthess poses at the CSCS, in Lugano, southern Switzerland, on August 27, 2026. Researchers who copied vast troves of NASA's climate and environmental data onto drives connected to a Swiss supercomputer expect its artificial intelligence modelling to accelerate a life-saving forecasting revolution underway. (Photo by Til BUERGY / AFP via Getty Images)