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Kiran Rathee

Orbital plans space data centres to power AI, seeks FCC clearance for 100,000 satellites

Orbital FCC ET Earth United States

It sounds like science fiction, but US-based satellite startup Orbital is looking to set up data centres in space that may power responses given by chatbots as artificial intelligence (AI) drives an unprecedented demand for computing power.

Orbital founder and CEO Euwyn Poon told ET it plans its first data centre satellite launch next year on a shared payload. The company has filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) seeking clearance to have 100,000 satellites in the low earth orbit (LEO) between 500 to 800 kilometres to deliver 10 gigawatts of compute to help process AI workloads.

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