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However, despite this optimism from firms aiming to develop the technology, Dr Domenico Vicinanza, associate professor of intelligent systems and data science at Anglia Ruskin University in the UK, says there are numerous big hurdles before space-based data centres can be a viable proposition.

On the other hand, the future seems pretty promising for workers with expertise in AI, machine learning and data science, but not everyone has access to the education and training needed to break into these fields.

"There could be this wave of new folks saying, 'You know what? California is just not going to work out for me because this is the third time in five years that I've had to close my doors because of the extreme soot and smoke,'" said University of Michigan data science professor Derek Van Berkel.

"There are multiple pathways available to negotiators, but it does require ambition," said Sam Pottinger, Senior Research Data Scientist, Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science and Environment at UC Berkeley.

The study is built on insights from an AI-generated tool developed by a team of plastic researchers, data scientists, and AI researchers at the Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory and Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at University of California Santa Barbara, and the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment at University of California Berkeley.