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fromTechCrunch
16 hours ago

Starship's path to reusability looks murky after SpaceX's S-1 | TechCrunch

Starlink revenue is strong, but satellite replacement and launch costs may rise if Starship full reusability is not achieved.
Science
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Orbital datacenter startup admits launch economics don't fly

Orbital plans a 10,000-satellite neocloud, contingent on reduced launch costs and increased capacity from companies like SpaceX.
fromTechzine Global
3 months ago

Is the future of compute space-based?

Could IT infrastructure, and even the rise of AI, eventually migrate beyond the atmosphere? Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted in October that gigawatt-scale, solar-powered data centers would be a reality within 10 to 20 years. At the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, Elon Musk was even more ambitious: AI data centers in the "final frontier" could be viable within two to three years. Google also plans to deploy its TPU chips in orbit via Project Suncatcher.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
fromTheregister
5 months ago

Galactic Brain space datacenter promised in 2027

Aetherflux plans to launch its first space-based data center satellite in Q1 2027 to bypass terrestrial construction and address compute and energy bottlenecks.
fromTheregister
6 months ago

Google launches AI hype to the moon with Project Suncatcher

Google on Tuesday announced a new moonshot - launching constellations of solar-powered satellites packed to the gills with its home-grown tensor processing units (TPUs) to form orbital AI datacenters. "In the future, space may be the best place to scale AI compute," Google executives wrote in a blog post, in which they explain that solar panels can be eight times more efficient in space than on Earth, and can produce power continuously.
Artificial intelligence
Tech industry
fromArs Technica
6 months ago

Meet Project Suncatcher, Google's plan to put AI data centers in space

Free-fall linked-satellite data centers require kilometer-scale station keeping, radiation-tolerant consumer TPUs for multi-year operation, prototype launches, and much cheaper launch costs.
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