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Google and SpaceX plan orbital data centers to power AI with space solar
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Fusion42 · 25 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Google and SpaceX are planning to deploy data centres in orbit, powered by space-based solar panels and cooled by radiative systems, with SpaceX targeting a 1 GW capacity by 2027 to bypass terrestrial power grid constraints. The article examines feasibility challenges including solar panel deployment efficiency, wireless power transmission between satellites, and thermal dissipation in vacuum.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of AI Infrastructure, Cloud Infrastructure and Space Tech.
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If Google and SpaceX move AI workloads off the terrestrial grid, every company selling power infrastructure, cooling systems, or wireless transmission technology to data centres has a new customer class with radically different constraints. Start talking to SpaceX's supply chain now about what breaks in orbit.
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