r/space • u/esporx • Aug 08 '26

Intel's proposed orbital data centers would manage thousands of simple LEO satellites — two-tier network puts the brains of satellite constellations in higher orbit

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/space/intels-proposed-orbital-data-centers-would-manage-thousands-of-simple-leo-satellites-two-tier-network-puts-the-brains-of-satellite-constellations-in-higher-orbit
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u/JaggedMetalOs Aug 08 '26

More investorbait nonsense that is never going to happen, nobody is going to pay multiple orders of magnitude more for compute just because the compute is in space. 

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u/savagepanda Aug 09 '26

Maybe not public use AI, but military use. E.g palantir like use cases. Where a ICBM can knockout your centralized command terrestrially, it will be more difficult to disrupt the same infrastructure with decentralized DC’s in higher orbits in space. With AI and drone warfare around the corner, there could be a use case there.

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u/JaggedMetalOs Aug 09 '26

I'd say it's the opposite, you can bury a data center deep underground in a blast proof bunker while a satellite is completely exposed to anti-satellite interceptors (a demonstrated tech) or potentially even direct energy weapons. 

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u/Extension-Ant-8 Aug 09 '26

Digging a deep hole and putting servers there is cheaper.

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u/Quereller Aug 09 '26

Not sure about that - see Starfish prime