Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin plans on challenging SpaceX not just in rockets, but also in the emerging race to build orbiting data centers.
On Thursday, Blue Origin filed plans with the Federal Communications Commission for “Project Sunrise,” the company’s own effort to operate space-based data centers.
“Blue Origin’s Project Sunrise will serve the broad AI data center market and enable US companies developing and using AI to flourish,” the company wrote. “By adding compute capacity to orbit, the constellation will expand total industry capacity and introduce new sources of clean power for compute workloads while preserving terrestrial infrastructure for uses that cannot be replicated in space.”
According to the proposal, Project Sunrise…