European rocket puts Amazon internet satellites in orbit
…A little under two hours after the launch, the satellites separated from the rocket and were released into low-Earth orbit in stages. Applause rang out at the Guiana Space Center after…
…A little under two hours after the launch, the satellites separated from the rocket and were released into low-Earth orbit in stages. Applause rang out at the Guiana Space Center after…
…Last year, xAI built the Colossus 1 data center with 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs, including dense deployments of H100, H200, and next-generation GB200 accelerators. Today, Anthropic signed an agreement with SpaceX…
…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…
…Musk, in his February announcement, also wrote of "launching a million satellites that operate as orbital data centers." AI data centers in space is a fever dream having a moment: Jensen Huang…
…It currently has nearly 10,000 satellites in orbit. In January, Musk applied to the FCC to launch 1 million more satellites to build data centers in space. SpaceX also seems to…
…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…
…More AI means more data center deals In the same post, Anthropic listed some of its other data center agreements with companies, including Amazon, Google and Microsoft, and reiterated its intention to…
…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. More powerful…
…is by performing training and inference on orbital data centers, which Musk has promised to be a much cheaper alternative to terrestrial data centers. That sci-fi vision isn’t likely to…
…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…