Everyone is using generative artificial intelligence. Every industry, from film and marketing to cybersecurity and ...

The demand for AI compute is surging, but the bottleneck is no longer chips, it's the power required to run them. Orbital was founded on the belief that the only way to scale compute and unlock future ...

Months after Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI merged with billionaire’s social media company X in March, Musk’s rocket and satellite manufacturer SpaceX has acquired xAI, creating “the ...

For more than two decades in sourcing and supply-chain architecture, we’ve watched industries scale only when their supply chains become predictable, certifiable and repeatable. Orbital and lunar data ...

Aetherflux Inc. wants to put AI servers in orbit, and it is giving itself less than two years to do it. The California-based startup, which originally set out to beam solar energy from space to the ...

For years, private space companies have been racing to put enough satellites in orbit to eradicate the need for ground-based hardware for the delivery of Internet to where it’s needed. In time, ...

Elon Musk, the visionary behind SpaceX, has confirmed plans to develop orbital data centers, marking a significant leap in space-based computing. This ambitious initiative builds on the prediction of ...

Editor's note: This is the first of three feature articles Ars is publishing to explore the financial, technical, and competitive dimensions of orbital data centers. Although the idea of putting data ...