Modern Data & Knowledge Platforms: The Foundation Every AI Strategy Actually Runs On: SD Times 100

Part of the SD Times 100 2026 series. See the full SD Times 100 2026 list for every category and honoree. Every conversation ...
The Conversation

Building data centers in space is an intriguing idea on paper, but major engineering challenges must be solved

Imagine if one company could become the railroad, electric utility and cloud-computing provider of the emerging space economy. That potential fueled excitement around the long-anticipated initial ...
Forbes

Data Centers In Space? Coming Soon, But With Down-To-Earth Hurdles

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Terrestrial data centers face increasing backlash over power, water, and pollution, ...
Forbes

Forget Elon’s Data Centers In Space. This Startup Wants To Float Them At Sea

Panthalassa, backed by Peter Thiel and a flotilla of tech investors, sees data centers powered and cooled by the ocean as a cheaper alternative to the orbiting server farms Musk is pitching to SpaceX ...
USA Today

Amid SpaceX IPO, Elon Musk wants to send 1 million AI satellites to space

The proposed AI satellites are much larger than the current Starlink satellites but are expected to be less complex. Demonstration launches for the AI satellites could begin by late 2027, with ...
Scientific American

SpaceX’s targeted $1.75-trillion valuation rests on engineering that hasn’t happened yet

SpaceX’s initial public offering (IPO) is shaping up to be the biggest in history—if, that is, the company achieves its targets. On the road show it has taken to investors, its stated mission is ...
CNET

SpaceX’s 1M AI Satellites Will Create Space Junkyard, Experts Warn

As Musk prepares for the largest IPO in history, SpaceX's plan to park a million data centers in Earth’s orbit has left scientists worried about a Wall-E-style orbital graveyard. Joe Supan is a senior ...
Wired

People Living Near xAI’s Dirty Data Centers Are Pissed About the SpaceX IPO

Elon Musk is set to make hundreds of billions even as communities in Mississippi and Tennessee are fighting to stop the gas turbines powering xAI's supercomputers. A public offering will allow SpaceX ...
techtimes

SpaceX AI1 Orbital Data Center Bets on Space Power and Cooling: Economics Stay Unproven

Elon Musk unveiled the AI1 concept on June 8, 2026, and the company followed with technical details the next day, timed to the week of its highly anticipated initial public offering. Musk has ...
Reuters

SpaceX aims to launch orbital AI computing tests by end of next year, sources say

NEW YORK, June 9 (Reuters) - SpaceX executives say the company is aiming to launch initial demonstrations of space-based artificial intelligence computing infrastructure by late 2027, ahead of the "as ...
PC Magazine

SpaceX's Orbiting Data Centers Will Use Liquid Cooling, But Don't Expect Water

SpaceX's Orbiting Data Centers Will Use Liquid Cooling, But Don't Expect Water Since space is a vacuum that experiences extreme temperature swings, the AI satellites will likely use ammonia, rather ...