11 jun 2026
Why Orbital Data Centers Are Harder Than Silicon Valley Thinks
“Space computing, the final frontier, has arrived,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared at the Nvidia GTC conference in March. Indeed, the idea of data centers in orbit has gone from science fiction to a serious spending category. Elon Musk’s SpaceX has acquired xAI (also Musk’s) and is planning a constellation of space-based data centers.
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As SpaceX gears up to start launching orbital data center spacecraft as soon as next year, astronomers warn those satellites could cause serious interference with their observations. The post Astronomers fear orbital data centers will interfere with observations appeared first on SpaceNews .
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