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Starcloud aims to deploy first orbital AI data centre in November launch
If successful, Starcloud’s technology could provide an alternative approach to meeting the surging demand for data processing capacity while mitigating the environmental impact associated with traditional data centres on Earth.
By João Marques Lima
Founder and Editor, The Tech Capital
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Philip Johnston, founder of Starcloud and a former NASA contractor
Starcloud, a start-up emerging from Nvidia’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) Inception programme and incubated in Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Cloud AI accelerator, has unveiled plans to construct large-scale solar-powered data centres in orbit to support the growing global demand for artificial intelligence (AI) computation.
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