Google, SpaceX In Talks To Launch Orbital Data Centers As Space Race Accelerates

The race to build AI infrastructure in space is rapidly moving from science fiction toward reality. 

Three new indications that data centers in space are becoming a legitimate idea emerged this week: a $2B valuation for a space computing startup, a response from NASA over a Jeff Bezos-backed orbital data center venture, and a potential data center partnership between two of the biggest names in the business world.

Google and SpaceX are in negotiations on a rocket-launch deal in which Elon Musk’s firm would carry Google’s data center units in space, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. 

Like many of the world’s largest tech firms, SpaceX and Google have begun steering resources toward making orbital data centers for artificial intelligence computing a reality, driven by the promise of limitless free, uninterrupted solar power...

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RSK: A few years away but it should solve the power hungry data centers and the NIMBY problem if it comes to fruition.