Blue Origin · Google · Sam Altman · SpaceX · China · FCC · Datacenter Dynamics
Falling launch costs have tended to prove out, not least with breakthroughs like SpaceX’s Starship well underway
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“The challenges are real,” Sophia Space’s DeMillo agrees.
Key facts
- In November 2025, Google unveiled Project Suncatcher, which CEO Sundar Pichai claimed would see Google place ‘data centers’ in space as early as 2027
- Another mysterious, enterprising company, Orbital Chenguang Technology Co
- [Data centers] will be better built in space, because we have solar power there, 24/7," he remarked
- After launching the first 12 satellites in May 2025, they haven't done anything substantial
Summary
“Like steam power in the 19th century and the Internet in the 20th century, AI is a revolutionary technology,” prophesizes Cowboy Space Corporation COO Joseph Yaffe in the company’s new application to the FCC. It’s nothing new to the FCC chairman, who is more than comfortable with hyperbole. That January, a filing from Elon Musk’s SpaceX declared: “A constellation of a million satellites that operate as orbital data centers is the first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization.” It was soon joined by another from Jeff Bezos-backed Blue Origin, proposing its “Project Sunrise”. The cell tower climbers risking it all to help them stay connected. The answers to humanity’s advancement are piling up at the US communications regulator, it appears, waiting for a canny disruptor to grease up his rubber stamp and smash through the red tape shackling American greatness, and propel mankind into the future.