Sources: Blue Origin has worked for over a year on tech for orbital AI data centers; SpaceX plans to use upgraded Starlink satellites for AI computing payloads
And Elon Siladitya Ray / Forbes : Musk Signals Reports Of SpaceX Planning An IPO Next Year Are ‘Accurate’ Andrew Nusca / Fortune : What OpenAI's ‘code red’ will accomplish Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge News : The Orbital Data Center Space Race Has Officially Begun Badar Shaikh / Benzinga : Nvidia-Backed Starcloud Trains First LLM In Space Amid Orbital Datacenter Buzz — CEO Calls It ‘Significant’ First Step Audrey Decker / Politico : Data centers are the next space oddity Noah Weidner / TheStreet : SpaceX's Musk, Blue Origin's Bezos, and OpenAI's Altman Eye Space Data Centers Blockchain.News : Elon Musk vs Jeff Bezos: SpaceX Starlink to Host AI Compute as Blue Origin Develops Orbital Data Centers — 2025 Race to Space-Based AI J.D. Capelouto / Semafor : Billionaires are racing to build to data centers in space X: Tren Griffin / @trengriffin : “Travis Beals, a Google executive working on the orbital data-center effort, said it would take 10,000 satellites to recreate the compute capacity of a gigawatt data center, assuming 100-kilowatt satellites.” https://www.wsj.com/... [image] Micah Maidenberg / @micahmaidenberg : News - Jeff Bezos' Blue Origins a team focusing on tech needed for orbital data centers. The group has been working for more than a year. Part of the sats-as-data centers push bubbling up across space and AI industries @WSJ https://www.wsj.com/... Micah Maidenberg / @micahmaidenberg : 10,000 satellites running in orbit as a gigawatt-scale data center? Updated story about the throng of companies, execs and engineers trying to figure out what may be possible for an idea that has seized the imaginations across many in space and AI https://x.com/... Bluesky: George Pearkes / @peark.es : More from the WSJ: — Blue Origin has been working on orbital data centers for over a year — “SpaceX plans to use an upgraded version of its Starlink satellites to host AI computing payloads” — This idea is an explicit hook for the IPO (lol) Forums: r/ASTSpaceMobile : Bezos and Musk Race to Bring Data Centers to Space r/BlueOrigin : Bezos and Musk Race to Bring Data Centers to Space