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The physics challenges of orbital data centers are formidable but not insurmountable. Let’s start with radiation, a concern with all space hardware. Based on its experience with the Starlink constellation, SpaceX has found that many of the required computing components, such as processors and memory, are already fairly radiation-tolerant. Sam Waldman, a physicist who worked at SpaceX from 2012 to 2018 on avionics for various programs, including Starlink, said power supplies and other components are more vulnerable to radiation, but there are known techniques to address the issue. SpaceX has le
How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?…Iranian drone attacks on data centers disrupted Amazon Web Services in the region and stuck Amazon with months of repairs while forcing another data center developer to pause Middle East projects . Jeremy…
…AI companies are generally facing more challenges in funding and building expensive AI data centers , even as they shift more of the subsidized costs of running AI services onto shocked customers through…
…Like other AI-obsessed tech behemoths, Google is burning cash on building and running the data centers powering its AI models. These numbers were already well above the $91 billion Google spent…
…So as of today, SpaceX is owned by investors who largely want to see it make money; to reach its enormous valuation, it must make that money through orbital data centers. This…
…The resulting improvement in chip compute performance and energy efficiency comes from what IBM describes as the “world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology” for AI data centers. “It’s not…
SAN FRANCISCO—At its Code with Claude developer conference on Wednesday, Anthropic announced a deal with SpaceX to utilize the entire compute capacity of the latter’s data center in Memphis, Tennessee…
…Currently, AI firms like OpenAI are combating what Axios billed as an “AI hate wave.” Recent polls find that 70 percent of Americans don’t want AI data centers built in their…
…How many launches to build a data center megaconstellation ? In a new feature, Ars looks into the technical challenges of building orbital data centers and assesses what it might take to build…
…to build and maintain bases on the Moon and Mars or large constellations of orbital data centers? Getting Starship’s heat shield back, and then putting the recovered tiles through tests in…
…However, the job cuts are also tied to large capital expenditure to build Oracle’s data center infrastructure to support AI workloads. “The majority of the initiatives undertaken by the 2026 Restructuring…
