NVIDIA Silently Builds an Orbital AI Empire With 5 Partners, Racing Elon Musk to Put Datacenters in Space

NVIDIA is partnering with five space companies to develop orbital AI datacenter infrastructure.

Plans include a large space-based facility and a Space-1 Vera Rubin module for compute in orbit.

The move reflects growing pressure from Earth-based limits on land, power, water, and cooling for AI.

SpaceX is also pursuing similar orbital compute ambitions with Anthropic, intensifying the space-compute race.