Investor attention is starting to shift toward ventures that could be enabled by orbital data centers, even as the massive ...

Months after Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI merged with billionaire’s social media company X in March, Musk’s rocket and satellite manufacturer SpaceX has acquired xAI, creating “the ...

China’s Orbital Chenguang secured major credit lines for space-based data centers as AI demand strains power, land, and ...

WASHINGTON — Blue Origin is the latest company to propose an orbital data center system, filing plans for a constellation of up to 51,600 satellites. In a March 19 filing with the Federal ...

Elon Musk, the visionary behind SpaceX, has confirmed plans to develop orbital data centers, marking a significant leap in space-based computing. This ambitious initiative builds on the prediction of ...

In the first week of February 2026, the geography of human intelligence officially detached from the Earth. With a landmark filing to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on February 4, SpaceX ...

Editor's note: This is the first of three feature articles Ars is publishing to explore the financial, technical, and competitive dimensions of orbital data centers. Although the idea of putting data ...

For years, private space companies have been racing to put enough satellites in orbit to eradicate the need for ground-based hardware for the delivery of Internet to where it’s needed. In time, ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. This is no longer a thought experiment. The orbital data center market is projected to reach ...