
Silicon Valley Bets on Data Centers in Earth Orbit
Venture capitalists in Silicon Valley are funding an ambitious new frontier: data centers in Earth orbit. This emerging tech aims to revolutionize data processing but faces immense challenges.
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Venture capitalists in Silicon Valley are funding an ambitious new frontier: data centers in Earth orbit. This emerging tech aims to revolutionize data processing but faces immense challenges.

Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman has cast doubt on the near-term viability of placing AI data centers in space, citing the immense weight and cost of launching server hardware as major obstacles.

A new generation of startups is planning to build data centers in space, using constant solar power and the vacuum of orbit for cooling to solve Earth's growing energy crisis.

AI infrastructure firm Crusoe and partner Starcloud have announced plans to launch the world's first public cloud data center in space, set to go online by 2027.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicts that gigawatt-scale data centers will be built in space within 10 to 20 years to leverage constant solar power.

Aetherial Technologies has announced a $2 billion investment to build a new hyperscale data center in New Albany, Ohio, aiming to boost its cloud and AI capabilities.