… The economics of an orbiting data center would benefit from always-available solar power, even considering the relative difficulty in cooling the rack units. …
… In fact, the world’s first trillionaire has been talking about compute in space since November last year and filed for a one-million-satellite Orbital Data Center System with the FCC in February 2026. …
… The model has prominent skeptics: OpenAI's Sam Altman called orbital data centers "ridiculous" earlier this year. …
Anthropic announced in a press release on Wednesday that it has signed a deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to use the company's massive Colossus 1 data center. …
… Go deeper with TH Premium: AI and data centers Photonics and high-speed data movement is the next big AI bottleneck The data center cooling state of play Massive AI data center buildouts are squeezing energy supplies Ultra Ethernet: The data center interconnection of tomorrow During the interview, … …
… Space Google is reportedly in talks to make Elon Musk's SpaceX its launch partner for its orbital data centers as part of its Project Suncatcher initiative. …
… Google is also reportedly in talks with the company for a slice of the orbital data center pie . …
… The future of data center power, especially AI data centers, and the water that they require, is almost certainly some mix of renewables and near-site nuclear power. …
… Stellar ambition Another critical aspect of the announcement involved “orbital AI compute capacity” — basically, data centers in space . …
… Musk announced Terafab in March as a SpaceX and Tesla joint venture with an initial $20 billion budget , targeting 2nm production and a terawatt of annual compute for AI, robotics, and orbital data centers. …