
“Space computing, the final frontier, has arrived,” announced Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang in a statement this week. It’s a great line, but it’s also part of a very real physical artificial intelligence (AI) strategy for the fabless semiconductor giant.
Starcloud, a member of the NVIDIA Inception program, filed this week with the FCC for permission to launch 88,000 satellites into orbit. According to the filing, “the explosive growth of datacenter demands driven by AI… is already encountering severe roadblocks to efforts to scale on the ground.”