SpaceX filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission in January 2026 for one million satellites to serve as orbital data centers, and Starcloud filed for 88,000 satellites after succ…
The Fermi Explorer Mission, a non-profit initiative co-founded by Starcloud CEO Philip Johnston, plans to launch a probe to Alpha Centauri in 2029 on an 80,000-year journey, aiming to become the first…
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman is backing a plan to move AI data centers into Earth orbit, saying solar-powered facilities could avoid the land, water, and grid demands of terrestrial centers. A Fo…
A daily AI news digest published on Aug 23 lists 26 stories, including reports that Meta AI glasses are making it impossible to avoid being recorded, Apple's new AI integration might compromise user p…
Retiring baby boomers are taking undocumented institutional knowledge that AI systems need, causing AI projects to stall, according to an industry analysis. The article reports that current knowledge …
Starcloud announced a $250 million Series A extension on August 21, 2026, at a $2.3 billion post-money valuation, with Manhattan West leading and NVIDIA participating. The round brings the company's t…
Nvidia Corp. has made a series of rapid-fire deals in 2026, including a $25 million investment in Starcloud, which raised $250 million in new funding at a $2.3 billion valuation for orbital data cente…
Starcloud, a startup building orbital data centers, raised $250 million at a $2.3 billion valuation, led by Manhattan West with new investors Nvidia and Cisco Investments. The funding brings total cap…
Starcloud, an orbital-compute developer founded in 2024, raised a $250 million extension to its Series A at a $2.3 billion valuation, led by Manhattan West Ventures, with participation from Nvidia, Ci…
Starcloud, formerly Lumen Orbit, has raised approximately $200M in total capital, including a $170M Series A on March 30, 2026, reaching a $1.1B post-money valuation and becoming the fastest Y Combina…
Starcloud, a startup developing satellites for orbital AI inference, has raised a $250 million extension to its Series A round, valuing the company at $2.3 billion. The extension, led by Manhattan Wes…
On July 18, 142 protests were held across 42 U.S. states against data center development, part of a movement that has led 183 U.S. towns to enact moratoriums or bans, according to the U.S. Data Center…
Prestige venture firms are increasingly securing better prices than other investors in the same funding round through dual valuation deals, a practice that has become pervasive in the current AI-drive…
SpaceX filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission in January 2026 for one million satellites to serve as orbital data centers, and Starcloud filed for 88,000 satellites after succ…
Starcloud, a startup founded on January 1, 2024, is building data centers in orbit to address AI's energy bottleneck, leveraging solar power and declining launch costs. The company raised $170 million…
Space-based data centers face insurmountable physics challenges that make them impractical, according to an analysis of companies like Starcloud, Axiom, Sophia Space, Google Project Suncatcher, and Sp…
A coalition of environmental groups, including Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Environment America, and DarkSky International, petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to ha…
SpaceX and Blue Origin are racing to deploy massive satellite constellations for orbital AI data centers, with SpaceX filing for up to 1 million satellites and Blue Origin filing for approximately 51,…
Startups like Starcloud are racing to build AI data centers in orbit, with Starcloud launching a satellite carrying an Nvidia H100 GPU that trained a language model in space. The company raised $170 m…
IEEE Spectrum reports that orbital data centers remain economically and technically impractical despite Elon Musk's predictions, citing massive scaling challenges in launch capacity, satellite manufac…