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The hottest new address in AI infrastructure isn’t in Northern Virginia or West Texas.
It’s a few hundred miles straight up.
Alongside its debut earnings report this week, SpaceX (SPCX) announced that it’s teaming up with Nvidia (NVDA) to design the compute payload for Starmind AI1 – the first satellite in a planned orbiting network built to run AI workloads in outer space.
Importantly, this isn’t a research payload or a proof-of-concept demo. Starmind AI1 is designed to run production AI workloads in orbit – on Nvidia’s top-of-the-line Vera CPUs, Rubin GPUs, and the Vera Rubin NVL72 rackscale system, the same architecture powering the most advanced AI data centers on Earth.
