{"id":912202,"date":"2026-06-12T15:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T20:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/why-orbital-data-centers-are-harder-than-silicon-valley-thinks\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T15:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T20:12:06","slug":"why-orbital-data-centers-are-harder-than-silicon-valley-thinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/why-orbital-data-centers-are-harder-than-silicon-valley-thinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Orbital Data Centers Are Harder Than Silicon Valley Thinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature \u201cSpace computing, the final frontier, has arrived,\u201d Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared at the Nvidia GTC conference in March.Indeed, the idea of data centers in orbit has gone from science fiction to a serious spending category. Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX has acquired xAI (also Musk\u2019s) and is planning a constellation of space-based data centers&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/orbital-data-centers-heat\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Andrew Cavalier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature \u201cSpace computing, the final frontier, has arrived,\u201d Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared at the Nvidia GTC conference in March.Indeed, the idea of data centers in orbit has gone from science fiction to a serious spending category. Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX has acquired xAI (also Musk\u2019s) and is planning a constellation of space-based data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":912203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2778,29845,536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-912202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-centers","category-orbital","category-science-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}