Today was the first day I heard about space data centres. At this point I thought it wasn’t possible but I was startled, shook even, by this claim. Surely there are some things that are too ridiculous claim even by AI boosters. But I keep being proven wrong.
I looked it up and there are many “research papers” about space data centres. But as far as I can tell there is only one startup trying to bring this pipe dream to reality. It’s called Starcloud. They recently had their first successful test launch.
About the size of a small refrigerator, the 60kg satellite features the first Nvidia H100 GPU in space.
They have another test launch planned “by 2026” which they label “StarCloud-2”.
Starcloud plans to build a 5-gigawatt orbital data center with super-large solar and cooling panels approximately 4 kilometers in width and length.
I can’t even begin to describe how ridiculous this is,
The linked post is extremely valuable because it is written by someone who has worked on space electronics themselves. But I hope the normal reaction when someone boosts “space data centres” for AI we don’t really need is to laugh at them.
Today was the first day I heard about space data centres. At this point I thought it wasn’t possible but I was startled, shook even, by this claim. Surely there are some things that are too ridiculous claim even by AI boosters. But I keep being proven wrong.
I looked it up and there are many “research papers” about space data centres. But as far as I can tell there is only one startup trying to bring this pipe dream to reality. It’s called Starcloud. They recently had their first successful test launch.
They have another test launch planned “by 2026” which they label “StarCloud-2”.
The supposed end goal is this (according to Nvidia):
I can’t even begin to describe how ridiculous this is,
The linked post is extremely valuable because it is written by someone who has worked on space electronics themselves. But I hope the normal reaction when someone boosts “space data centres” for AI we don’t really need is to laugh at them.