Starcloud raises $170M at a $1.1B valuation to build data centres in orbit
The Redmond, Washington startup, which already has an Nvidia H100 GPU operating in orbit and has trained the first AI model in space, is now building a Starship-class spacecraft designed to be the first orbital data centre cost-competitive with terrestrial facilities. Starcloud has raised $170 million in a Series A round led by Benchmark and […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
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