Starlink satellites are best known for supplying high-speed internet, but SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is suggesting they might one day also be used as orbiting data centers. 🛰️
Creating a network of orbiting data centers would be no easy task. But according to Musk, SpaceX already has a foundation with the company’s next-generation V3 Starlink satellites, which are designed to beam gigabit internet.
"Simply scaling up Starlink V3 satellites, which have high-speed laser links, would work,” he tweeted. “SpaceX will be doing this."
This comes amid growing discussions about building power-hungry AI data centers in space to mitigate the environmental impact on Earth. Musk’s tweet suggests SpaceX could make V3 satellites even larger to host more built-in computing. A customer could then remotely connect to the Starlink satellites—which already possess high-speed connectivity—and run AI training workloads.
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