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A single large communications satellite with solar panels extended, floating above the curved blue-and-white arc of Earth's atmosphere, lit by hard sunlight aga
Science & Space

Starcloud raises $250 million to build AI data centres in space

The satellite startup is now valued at $2.3 billion and is betting that SpaceX's next-generation rocket will make processing data in orbit genuinely competitive with servers on the ground.

4 min read
A single large communications satellite with solar panels extended, floating above the curved blue-and-white arc of Earth's atmosphere, lit by hard sunlight aga
Science & Space

Space data centers are a long way off, and most experts already knew it

A weekend spat between Sam Altman and Elon Musk put a spotlight on a quiet consensus among engineers: orbital computing is not a near-term business, no matter what SpaceX's valuation implies.

3 min read
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