What will it take to get orbital data centres off the ground?
In-depth: despite naysayers, startups and hyperscalers are accelerating plans to deploy data centres in space, with multiple major announcements since the start of the year. TelcoTitans Infrawatch investigates the players, prospects and viability…
This article includes:
- Themes: AI compute scaling; Data sovereignty; In‑space operations; Orbital data centres; Power and cooling challenges; Quantum key distribution; Satellite mesh networks; Space‑based AI; Thermal management; Unit economics.
- People: Anant Goenka; Jason Aspiotis; Mark Dankberg; Matt Garman; Mike Dano; Sam Altman; Elon Musk.
- Organisations: 4iG; Axiom Space; AWS; Blue Origin; Google Cloud; International Space Station; Nvidia; Ookla; ReOrbit; SpaceX; Starcloud; Viasat; xAI.
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