Space Mafia: The Battle Between an Accountable "Heaven" and an Unfettered "Skynet" in Orbital AI (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781834383873)

The future is no longer on the horizon. It is overhead, circling the planet every 90 minutes.

While regulators on Earth scramble to catch up with terrestrial AI, a new frontier is being claimed, 600 kilometres above the Kármán Line. In a move reminiscent of 1960s pirate radio, today's tech titans are launching high-performance compute clusters into a legal vacuum where no terrestrial court can enforce a single clause.

From Starcloud's rogue GPU experiments to SpaceX's skyborne supercomputers, Space Mafia" is already operating beyond the reach of national borders. We stand at a civilisational crossroads: Will orbital AI become a transparent engine of global equity-a "Heaven" for climate monitoring and disaster relief? Or will it evolve into "Skynet"-a dark web of the sky, where data sovereignty collapses and unaccountable power vanishes into the exosphere?

In Space Mafia, seasoned enterprise architect Andreas Hamberger delivers a "just-in time" warning for leaders and policymakers. This book provides a strategic map to:

* Navigate Regulatory Arbitrage: Understand how competitors use orbital nodes to bypass data protection laws.

* Evaluate the case studies: Peer into the real-world deployments of Starcloud, Google Project Suncatcher, SpaceX, and Axiom Space.

* Lead in the Orbital Era: Deploy practical frameworks to protect your organisation from being "leapfrogged" by a satellite relay within a single quarter.

The rockets are launching. The rules are still unwritten. The choice is ours.