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SpaceX seeks FCC nod to build data center constellation in space
- February 2, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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SpaceX is requesting permission to launch as many as 1 million satellites into the Earth's orbit in order to pull off Elon Musk's latest grand vision of putting data centers in space to do complex computing for artificial intelligence. In a filing with the Federal Communications Commission made on Jan. 30, SpaceX said it's creating the solar-powered network in order to "accommodate the explosive growth of data demands driven by AI."
Originally published at Phys.org