There aren’t enough rockets for space data centers — Cowboy Space raised $275M to build them
The apparently insatiable demand for AI compute has data center entrepreneurs looking to the stars. There's a key problem: There aren't enough rockets to put data centers in orbit around Earth, and they're too expensive.
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