A US startup, Orbital, is looking to set up space-based data centres to meet the surging demand for AI computing power. The company aims to launch its first data centre satellite next year, with plans for 100,000 satellites in low Earth orbit to deliver 10 gigawatts of compute. Orbital plans to scale up deployment towards the end of the decade when the SpaceX-owned Starship will come online and significantly reduce the launch cost, Poon said.

La constelación espacial propuesta podría aportar 10 gigavatios de potencia informática, igualando la nueva capacidad eléctrica anual de Estados Unidos

A US startup, Orbital, is looking to set up space-based data centres to meet the surging demand for AI computing power. The company aims to launch its first data centre satellite…

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A five-month-old Los Angeles startup called Orbital has asked American regulators for permission to do something that sounds almost implausible: launch up to 100,000 satellites…