A Seattle-area startup with more than $2M in funding and the backing of a prominent Silicon Valley accelerator plans to build massive artificial intelligence data centers in space.
Lumen Orbit drew attention earlier this month with a white paper and marketing video that claim its strategy of launching facilities into space will alleviate the intense pressure on the power grid that the AI-driven data center boom has created. But actually building them will be a moon shot.
Source: Startup Says Space Data Centers Are The Answer To AI Power Crunch. Some Are Skeptical