There has been much discussion in the space community recently about building large data centers in orbit to avoid the environmental consequences of sprawling computing facilities on Earth. These ...

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As artificial intelligence drives the need for vastly more computing storage and processing power, interest in space-based data centers has spiked. Although several startup companies, such as ...

Building such facilities off Earth could have a lot of benefits. Early projects are underway. Last week, the Florida-based company Lonestar Data Holdings launched a shoebox-size device carrying data ...

Advances in artificial intelligence are driving surging demand for data centers. But these warehouse-like facilities, containing computers that process and store data, require a lot of land and huge ...

Baiju Bhatt, billionaire cofounder of retail brokerage Robinhood, started his company Aetherflux in 2024 to use solar panels in space to collect sunlight and beam that energy back down to Earth to use ...

Axiom Space will launch two orbiting data center nodes into low Earth orbit by the end of this year, as the first step in the development of off-planet computing infrastructure. The two satellites ...

The space race is back – but unlike the battle between the political superpowers in the 60s, this one is between tech corporations looking to explore data processing potential above the clouds. Google ...