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Orbital datacenter gold rush needs an environmental review, FCC told

Green groups want licenses frozen before a million satellites litter the exosphere…

SpaceX vaporizes 260 Starlink satellites in six months using Earth's atmosphere — new environmental concerns emerge over burning 2,700-pound orbital data centers, FCC seeks to exempt satellites from regulations

Masayoshi Son questioned Musk's orbital AI data centers, noting electricity is just 7% of costs and the AI race will be won on Earth within a few years (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal)

Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal : Masayoshi Son questioned Musk's orbital AI data centers, noting electricity is just 7% of costs and the AI race will be won on Earth within a fe…

‘Networking becomes the make-or-break factor’: Orbital data centers reintroduce a challenge we’ve now fixed on land

Space-bound data centers promise solar energy and scale as AI demands soar, but latency re-emerges as a major issue.…

Impulse Space raises $500M as orbital maneuvering race heats up

The market's going to continue to find exciting new things."…

‘The moment infrastructure moves to orbit, that assumption disappears’: Layered access control, physical redundancy and rapid component replacement are major orbital challenges

Hyperscalers are attracted to near-limitless possibilities, but they’re overlooking the operational risks…

'Our ability to achieve orbital AI at scale depends on our ability to access a sufficient number of AI chips, significantly more than are currently available to us': SpaceX admits that getting data centers in space may fall short due to a lack of chips

SpaceX reveals terrifying dependence on scarce AI chips as orbital supercomputer ambitions collide with semiconductor reality worldwide…

Chemical bonds emerge naturally from maximally entangled atomic orbitals

Chemical bonding explains how atoms bind together, but it remains hard to define in universal terms. Here, the authors use quantum entanglement to uncover and quantify bonds in com…

London- and SF-based Orbital Industries, which uses its Orb model to design advanced materials and then sell them directly, raised a $50M Series B led by Plural (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune : London- and SF-based Orbital Industries, which uses its Orb model to design advanced materials and then sell them directly, raised a $50M Series B led by Pl…

SpaceX admits it can't find enough chips for orbital AI yet, requires 'significantly more than are currently available to us' — firm's risk factors in IPO paperwork also says ambitious TeraFab project may not be successful

As Intel and Tesla may abandon TeraFab.…

This Orbital Data Center Startup Is Integrating Starlink Lasers

Starcloud plans to use the Starlink Mini Laser system across 25 orbiting data center satellites to transmit data to clients on the ground.…

How to become the world's richest person in 5 easy steps in the 2030s (the Cascading Orbital Arbitrage Method, COAM)

Show HN: AI Guided 3D atomic orbital simulation

Amazon Accelerates Orbital Connectivity & AWS Ambitions - Reiterate Buy

Amazon (AMZN) outlook: AWS AI demand, $364B backlog, OpenAI/Anthropic deals, and $200B capex could drive upside. Read the full analysis here.…

NEC’s orbital transfer vehicle has cislunar combat potential

Japan’s NEC Corporation has launched a project to develop an Orbital Transfer Vehicle (OTV) – a spacecraft designed to transport satellites to their…

SpaceX and Blue Origin plan to build orbital data centers powered by solar energy

SpaceX and Blue Origin plan to launch orbital data centers powered by solar energy to meet AI computing demand, but face major technical and debris risks.…

Meta will beam sunlight from space to power AI data centers, solar-collecting satellites will orbit 22,000 miles above Earth — firm reserves 1 Gigawatt of orbital solar energy and 100 Gigawatt-hours of long-duration storage

Sunlight beamed from space could help solve AI’s exploding electricity problem.…