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Orbital, a startup founded by e-scooter founder Euwyn Poon, raised $5 million to build space data centers for AI inference, betting on SpaceX's Starship for economic viability.
Planet Labs CEO Will Marshall announced at a conference that his company is partnering with Google to launch TPUs into space for orbital data centers, claiming viability within a few years.
Elon Musk has proposed putting data centers in space, and Lonestar Data Holdings founder Christopher Stott explains that the architecture would involve satellites flying in synchronized formation, connected by optical lasers and radio frequencies, with cost being a major incentive for scaling AI data centers in space.
The article discusses the feasibility and hype surrounding the concept of space-based data centers, exploring their potential benefits and challenges.
Reports indicate Google is in talks with SpaceX to launch data centers into space, a potential move to address energy consumption and infrastructure demands for AI workloads.