A Los Angeles-based startup has raised $5 million to fund an in-orbit computing demonstration next year, ahead of plans to deploy more than 100,000 orbital data centers to meet surging demand for AI infrastructure.

Orbital, led by a16z speedrun, raised a $5M pre-seed to build solar-powered AI data centres in low Earth orbit, with a SpaceX demo flight set for 2027.

Orbital founder Euwyn Poon built 250,000 scooters at Spin. Now he wants to launch 10,000 space data centers.