… Silicon Valley-based Cowboy Space will use the funding to develop its own rocket to put data centers into orbit. Cowboy up … The company’s vision sounds familiar. Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin have each announced plans to use their own rockets for launching orbital data centers. …
… Vast aims to serve a variety of customers, from telecommunications to observation to data services. Haot added that Vast also plans to offer an NVIDIA Space-1 Vera Rubin Module to support orbital data center inferencing needs. …
… 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. …
… Ars has previously examined the logic behind orbital data centers along with the economic challenges of taking this course of action. Building that orbital data center future envisioned by SpaceX would potentially require more than a trillion dollars. …
… The filing also acknowledges the significant work that SpaceX has yet to complete with Starship to make it a fully reusable rocket capable of delivering large payloads to the Moon and Mars. “These systems involve significant technological, engineering, and operational challenges, including the need… …
… Starship and orbital data centers are the Falcon 9 and Starlink constellations on steroids. …
… That may explain the turn to unusual schemes such as offering homeowners the chance to host mini data centers , along with more quixotic proposals such as launching orbital data centers into space and floating AI data centers in the middle of the ocean. …
… Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, took over as chief executive of Relativity a little more than a year ago, teasing new areas of focus such as orbital data centers, philanthropic space science ventures, and national security missions. …
… It is only due to the reuse of this rocket, and its deployment of the Starlink constellation, that SpaceX’s ambitious plans for Starlink and orbital data centers are credible. …
… Additionally, Anthropic “expressed interest” in working with SpaceX to build up “multiple gigawatts” of orbital compute capacity, tying into a recent but unproven focus on exploring orbital data centers as an answer to the problem that “compute required to train and operate the next generation of t… …