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Tereza Pultarova

Powerful NVIDIA chip launching to orbit next month to pave way for space-based data centers

An illustration showing a data center in space with various white modules of servers.

An NVIDIA GPU is heading toward its record-setting orbital debut, a trip that will test how data centers could work in the final frontier.

The NVIDIA H100 GPU, which is about 100 times more powerful than any processor that has flown in space to date, will fly aboard the Starcloud-1 satellite, which is expected to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket next month.

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