"The elephant in the room is that our current energy plans simply won't get us there fast enough."
""The race for artificial general intelligence is fundamentally a race for compute capacity, and by extension, energy. The elephant in the room is that our current energy plans simply won't get us there fast enough," Baiju Bhatt, founder and CEO of Aetherflux - who also co-founded Robinhood - says in a press release. "Galactic Brain puts the sunlight next to the silicon and skips the power grid entirely.""
Aetherflux plans to launch its first data-center satellite in early 2027 as the initial node of a larger "Galactic Brain" satellite constellation. The company aims to run compute in orbit on continuous solar energy to avoid terrestrial power-grid constraints and meet growing electricity and space demands for AI compute. The technology builds on efforts to beam solar power from satellites to Earth using lasers. Major competitors and researchers include Google (Project Suncatcher), Blue Origin, and SpaceX, all studying feasibility of solar-powered orbital data centers to provide round-the-clock power without day-night interruptions.
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