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Elon Musk's first-gen orbital data center craft spans wider than a Boeing 747 and runs an interchangeable chip payload

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tomshardware.com 2026-06-09 Luke James

Elon Musk laid out the first detailed design of SpaceX's AI1 satellite in a 30-minute video posted to the company's X account.

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SpaceX unveils 11-million-square-foot Gigasat factory, a new manufacturing facility for space-based data centers

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tomshardware.com 2026-06-09 Etiido Uko

SpaceX's new Gigasat factory will mass-produce AI satellites for orbital data centers. Musk says the company is targeting 1 GW of space AI compute by 2027 and 100 GW per year by 2030.

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Orbital Data Centers Are Souped-Up Satellites – For Now

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semiengineering.com 2026-06-04 Liz Allan

Satellite constellations with extra onboard compute are several steps away from handlin...

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