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Starcloud’s latest funding round values the space compute company at $1.1 billion, making it one of the fastest startups to reach unicorn status after graduating from Y Combinator. The company’s $170 ...
The idea of data centers in space sounds like science fiction, but it's a business concept that Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) is taking seriously. On March 16, it announced a new computing module that could ...
In 2011, I published an article in the Boston University Journal of Science & Technology Law examining space-based solar power (SBSP) and the issue of property rights in space, and more specifically, ...
From Nvidia to Elon Musk's SpaceX, Big Tech is betting big on a new layer of critical infrastructure that's emerging above our heads. Low earth orbit underpins global navigation, telecommunications, ...
The Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer-B (T1TL-B) national security space mission launched to orbit in September 2025 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base ...
With rising costs of data centers and the ongoing need for more space, power, and technology to deploy these enormous AI factories, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said in 2025 that AI computers in outer space ...
Starcloud plans to mine Bitcoin from orbit using ASIC hardware, arguing the economics of space computing favor specialized mining chips over GPUs. Starcloud, an Nvidia-backed orbital data center ...
The power crunch for AI data centers has gotten so severe that people — not just Elon Musk — are talking about launching servers into space so they can access solar power 24/7. One startup thinks the ...
ELON MUSK thinks it will be feasible “within two years, maybe three at the latest”. Sam Altman of OpenAI says it is “ridiculous…we are not there yet”. Google plans to test the concept next year. Eric ...
At the latest earnings call on February 25, Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said deploying data centers in space is technically feasible but currently uneconomic. However, he expects conditions to ...