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AI1 satellite
Coverage of AI1 satellite in the Nexus archive.
- 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.
- SpaceX wants to put AI data centers in orbit. It just showed investors what the first one looks like.
SpaceX plans to deploy AI data centers in orbit and has revealed the design of its first AI1 satellite, which measures 230 feet and provides 120 kilowatts of compute power using hardware developed for Starlink.