Starcloud is an aerospace startup developing space-based data centers, which use solar power and passive cooling for AI computation. The company launched its first satellite, Starcloud-1, carrying an NVIDIA H100 GPU, to demonstrate its technology and run AI workloads in orbit. Starcloud plans to build large orbital data centers with the long-term goal of offering energy-cost competitive data services compared to terrestrial data centers. Key aspects of Starcloud’s space data centers : • Solar-powered: The data centers will use constant sunlight for power, providing a stable and abundant energy source. • Passive cooling: They are designed to radiate heat into the vacuum of space, eliminating the need for traditional, water-intensive cooling methods. • Mission to validate technology: The initial satellite, Starcloud-1, is a test to validate thermal management and radiation shielding techniques for high-performance hardware. • AI focus: The data centers are designed to address ...