DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Space, Sebastian Moss, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Rocket Lab has no plans to enter orbital data center market
But SpaceX's compute ambitions could give Rocket Lab a launch opening
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SpaceX earnings: 2GW of compute by year end, aiming for 10-20GW by end of 2027
But Elon Musk's businesses have a habit of missing targets
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OpenAI's Sam Altman accuses Musk of selling public market investors "on short-term space data centers"
Generative AI business unlikely to make use of proposed SpaceX Orbital Data Center System
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SpaceX shares keep rising, company worth more than Microsoft and Amazon
Becomes the world’s fourth-largest publicly traded company
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SpaceX goes public, Elon Musk becomes world's first trillionaire
Shares jump on controversial listing
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SpaceX details AI1 satellite 'data center,' claims 150kW peak compute
Shows a draft version of its space array, ahead of Friday IPO
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Anthropic to use all of SpaceX-xAI's Colossus 1 data center compute
And "expresses interest" in multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity
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Anant Nivarti rejoins Tesla to lead silicon engineering, including AI6 and Dojo 3
After Dojo team was effectively disbanded, now it's back and targeting space
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AT&T, FirstNet support comms for NASA's Artemis II mission around the Moon
Ahead of plans for a Lunar Base
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Nvidia announces space compute modules, including Space-1 Vera Rubin
Will be used by Aetherflux, Axiom Space, Kepler Comms, Planet, Sophia Space, and Starcloud
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Nvidia hiring for orbital data center system architect, as space compute market grows
A GPU is already in orbit, Elon Musk plans to send a lot more
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Orbital computing startup Sophia Space raises $10m
Plans to deploy compute 'tiles' on satellites
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FCC seeks comment on SpaceX's million orbital data center plan
You have a month to comment
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Amazon Web Services' CEO says we're "pretty far" from having a million space data centers, calls them "just not economical"
While Amazon's founder Bezos believes we'll have gigawatt orbital facilities in 10+ years
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Elon Musk's SpaceX to merge with xAI at $1.25tn valuation, as it eyes space data center buildout
Claims a pathway to launching 1TW/year of compute
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SpaceX files for million satellite orbital AI data center megaconstellation
Musk co. claims hundreds of GW of compute in space
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Elon Musk's Tesla to invest $2bn in Musk's xAI, which is considering merging with Musk's SpaceX ahead of IPO
As xAI spends $430m on Tesla batteries for its data centers, and Musk considers space data centers
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Blue Origin plans thousands of TeraWave satellites, providing 6Tbps networking to data centers and enterprises
LEO and MEO satellites to provide global coverage
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Lunar data center firm Lonestar Data raises $6.6m, swaps CEO
Stephen Eisele named new head of Moon business
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SpaceX plans IPO, Elon Musk appears to confirm it's to fund space data centers - report
As big tech increasingly looks to the skies for data center deployments
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Project Suncatcher: Google to launch TPUs into orbit with Planet Labs, envisions 1km arrays of 81-satellite compute clusters
Latest in a wave of space data center announcements
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Elon Musk says SpaceX "will be doing" data centers in space
Timelines and scale unclear
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Starcloud-1 satellite reaches space, with Nvidia H100 GPU now operating in orbit
A trial deployment ahead of data centers in space ambitions
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Crusoe to deploy in Starcloud satellite data center in late 2026, offer 'limited GPU capacity' in space from 2027
As Starcloud preps for first test launch next month
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Jeff Bezos claims there will be gigawatt data centers in space in 10+ years
Joining a growing list of space compute-focused billionaires
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SpaceX's Starlink Internet service hit by widespread global outage
After launching US T-Mobile service
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US space community warns of cuts to collision alert system
SpaceX and Blue Origin among firms concerned about 85 percent budget cuts at Office of Space Commerce
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UK gov't and Space Solar test robot that could one day build orbital data centers
AlbaTRUSS at UKAEA’s lab is an early step towards space megastructures