Orbital data centers are becoming a real category, not just SpaceX's territory anymore.
Last week Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin filed with the FCC for "Project Sunrise": more than 50,000 satellites performing high-energy compute in orbit. (Read more)
Nvidia announced a space-grade module of its Vera Rubin platform designed for in-orbit compute. Startup Starcloud already trained Gemini in orbit. China filed for 200,000 satellites. SpaceX filed for a million. When your GPU supplier is shipping for zero gravity, this isn't science fiction anymore.
SpaceX isn't thrilled about the competition. The company promptly sent a letter to the FCC urging regulators to reject Blue Origin's application, arguing that Amazon's involvement presents a conflict of interest — Bezos owns Blue Origin and chairs Amazon, whose own satellite network (Project Kuiper) would overlap with the orbital compute space.
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