Cloud computing+Satellite constellations → Data centers in space

Starcloud-1 puts the first data-center-class GPU, an NVIDIA H100, into orbit; the small language model NanoGPT was trained on it in space on Shakespeare's works, and the Gemma model was run on it — cnbc.com ↗

Internet & infrastructure

⚑ Backed by

• Science / Sundar Pichai: “There’s no doubt to me that a decade or so away we’ll be viewing it as a more normal way to build data centers”
• Business & markets / Jeff Bezos: “It's 10 plus years, and I bet it's not more than 20 years – we're going to start building these giant gigawatt data centres in space … We will be able to beat the cost of terrestrial data centres in space in the next couple of decades.”
• Business & markets / Elon Musk: “In the long term, space-based AI is obviously the only way to scale. … My estimate is that within 2 to 3 years, the lowest cost way to generate AI compute will be in space.”
• Business & markets / Sam Altman: “I honestly think the idea with the current landscape of putting data centers in space is ridiculous … It will make sense someday. … Orbital data centers are not something that's going to matter at scale this decade”

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