Galactic Brain space datacenter coming in 2027, pledges startup Aetherflux

Space startup Aetherflux says it plans to put its first data center satellite into orbit during the first quarter of 2027.

The company, founded and run by Baiju Bhatt, co-founder of financial firm Robinhood, sees satellites as a time-saving alternative to terrestrial data center construction, which can take five or more years.

"The race for artificial general intelligence is fundamentally a race for compute capacity, and by extension, energy," said Bhatt in a statement. "The elephant in the room is that our current energy plans simply won't get us there fast enough."

Amid the baffling absence of funding constraints, efforts to scale artificial intelligence remain gated by the availability of data center capacity and energy. Mundane concerns like land acquisition, utility connections, and creating sturdy structures can be bypassed for the cost of lifting kit beyond the Kármán line.

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