TECHNOLOGYJul 15 · 11:00 UTCARS TECHNICAEric Berger

How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?

SpaceX is focusing on developing orbital data centers through a constellation of 1 million satellites to generate 120 GW, powering up to 100 million frontier-class GPUs. Elon Musk and Ian Dahl revealed details in June about the AI1 satellite, the first iteration of this project.

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