> Washington-based Starcloud launched a satellite with an Nvidia H100 graphics processing unit in early November
An. That's not a datacenter, that's a server.
> Starcloud CEO Philip Johnston told CNBC that the company’s orbital data centers will have 10 times lower energy costs than terrestrial data centers.
> “Anything you can do in a terrestrial data center, I’m expecting to be able to be done in space. And the reason we would do it is purely because of the constraints we’re facing on energy terrestrially,” Johnston said in an interview.
Does that include lifting acres of solar panels into orbit?
If this takes off (no pun intended), maybe we'll get to deal with fun future problems like AI data centers blotting out the sun.
That's not even a server, that's a GPU. There's often 2-4 H100 cards per 1U of server, so a 4U server could have 8 of those. This whole satellite hosts something like 1/168th of a rack of compute, and the GPU only causes only about 100W of heat.
An. That's not a datacenter, that's a server.
> Starcloud CEO Philip Johnston told CNBC that the company’s orbital data centers will have 10 times lower energy costs than terrestrial data centers.
> “Anything you can do in a terrestrial data center, I’m expecting to be able to be done in space. And the reason we would do it is purely because of the constraints we’re facing on energy terrestrially,” Johnston said in an interview.
Does that include lifting acres of solar panels into orbit?
If this takes off (no pun intended), maybe we'll get to deal with fun future problems like AI data centers blotting out the sun.