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230 Why Eric Schmidt, Jeff Bezos and Startups Are High On Space Data Centers

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Evan Robinson-Johnson @ The Information 3 place · 06/06/2025 12:00 EDT

Why Eric Schmidt, Jeff Bezos and Startups Are High On Space Data Centers

If all goes as planned in August, a startup called Starcloud from Redmond, Wash., will load a rocket bound for space with a refrigerator-sized satellite, the first to contain an Nvidia H100 chip. Normally, that chip is at the heart of the sprawling data centers back on Earth that run the latest artificial intelligence models.

Compared to existing data centers, the Starcloud satellite will be almost comically under-powered: It may have only enough computing muscle to run less demanding versions of Google’s.

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