{"id":36743,"date":"2026-05-12T22:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/36743\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T22:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:31:13","slug":"report-google-and-spacex-in-talks-to-put-data-centers-into-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/36743\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Google and SpaceX in talks to put data centers into orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google and SpaceX are in talks to launch orbital data centers in space, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/spacex-google-in-talks-to-explore-data-centers-in-orbit-7b7799e2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reports<\/a> The Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The potential deal comes as SpaceX gears up for its <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/04\/01\/spacex-files-confidentially-for-ipo-in-mega-listing-potentially-valued-at-1-75-trillion-report-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">$1.75 trillion IPO<\/a> later this year, selling investors on the idea that data centers in space will be the cheapest place to put AI compute within the next few years. It also follows <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/05\/06\/is-xai-a-neocloud-now\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthropic\u2019s deal with SpaceX<\/a> last week to use computing resources from xAI\u2019s data center in Memphis, Tennessee, with the potential to work together on orbital ones in the future. (SpaceX acquired xAI in February.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google is reportedly talking to other rocket-launch companies as well. The company also plans to launch prototype satellites by 2027 as part of an initiative called Project Suncatcher, announced late last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elon Musk has <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/04\/05\/can-orbital-data-centers-help-justify-a-massive-valuation-for-spacex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">created hype<\/a> for orbital data centers, claiming they are cheaper to operate. Advocates also point out they are free from the local backlash that U.S. ground-based buildouts attract. However, as <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/02\/11\/why-the-economics-of-orbital-ai-are-so-brutal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">TechCrunch recently reported<\/a>, today\u2019s terrestrial data centers are much cheaper than those in orbit once satellite construction and launch costs are factored in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google invested $900 million in SpaceX in 2015, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/1652044\/000165204416000012\/goog10-k2015.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">regulatory filings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TechCrunch has reached out to Google and SpaceX for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google and SpaceX are in talks to launch orbital data centers in space, reports The Wall Street Journal,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1483,53,132,2195,9371,658,2899],"class_list":["post-36743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-xai","tag-alphabet","tag-anthropic","tag-google","tag-in-brief","tag-orbital-data-centers","tag-spacex","tag-xai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}