… The model has prominent skeptics: OpenAI's Sam Altman called orbital data centers "ridiculous" earlier this year. …
In Brief Posted: 10:30 AM PDT · May 12, 2026 Rebecca Bellan Report: Google and SpaceX in talks to put data centers into orbit Google and SpaceX are in talks to launch orbital data centers in space, reports The Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the matter. …
Google is reportedly considering working with SpaceX on orbital data centers By Igor Bonifacic May 12, 2026 2:51 pm EST Google is in negotiations with SpaceX to secure the company's help in its own nascent effort to put orbital data centers in space, reports The Wall Street Journal . …
… Cowboy Space Company, another space data center startup backed by a16z, recently decided to start building its own rockets . Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin also announced plans to launch data centers into space using its New Glenn launch vehicle. …
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… Orbital rockets typically have a booster stage that flies the vehicle to the edge of space, and a second stage that carries the payload and delivers it to orbit. Cowboy Space plans to build its data centers directly into the second stage of its rocket. …
… 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. …
… These orbital data centers will live between 550 and 1,000 kilometers from Earth. …
… "This is due to the prohibitive costs of launching hardware and the immense technical challenges of cooling these orbital datacenters in the vacuum that is space." MORE CONTEXT SpaceX hits back at Amazon in orbital datacenter dispute Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin applies to launch 51,000 d… …
… As AI data centers have run into opposition here on Earth, CEOs like Musk have started mulling big server racks in space powered by that 24/7 sunshine. Hammer, meet nail. Even if SpaceX is able to bring down the cost of boosting a data center into orbit, the economics are challenging at best . …
