NVIDIA GPU Launching to Orbit Sparks Race for Space-Based Data Centers
The era of terrestrial data centers—massive warehouses filled with energy-hungry servers—may soon give way to something much grander and far beyond our planet. With NVIDIA’s H100 GPU set to make its record-setting orbital debut aboard the Starcloud-1 satellite, humanity is witnessing the early steps toward space-based data centers—a concept once confined to science fiction but now rapidly becoming a technological frontier. The mission, led by Starcloud, a Redmond, Washington-based company, is not merely an engineering experiment. It represents a shift in how we envision global computing infrastructure. As Earth-based data centers increasingly struggle with environmental and energy challenges, outer space … Read more