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Nvidia Taps Japan’s Robot Giants to Build Smarter Factories

16 July 2026 at 18:47
Nvidia is partnering with Japan’s robotics leaders to develop smarter factories using physical AI, new models, and domestic computing infrastructure.

How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?

15 July 2026 at 12:00

SpaceX has pinned the bulk of its future value on orbital data centers. Not rockets. Not spacecraft.

Instead, it envisions launching and maintaining a constellation of 1 million satellites capable of generating 120 GW to power tens of millions—and potentially up to 100 million—frontier-class GPUs for data center services.

The company's founder, Elon Musk, revealed plans for this massive constellation months ago, but until recently, the scope of the individual satellites was largely unknown. That changed in June, when Musk and Ian Dahl, director of satellite engineering for SpaceX, spoke in a promotional video about the company's plans to develop the first iteration of an orbital data center, called an AI1 satellite. The video finally provided the company's numbers about the satellite's size and power capabilities.

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How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?

15 July 2026 at 12:00

SpaceX has pinned the bulk of its future value on orbital data centers. Not rockets. Not spacecraft.

Instead, it envisions launching and maintaining a constellation of 1 million satellites capable of generating 120 GW to power tens of millions—and potentially up to 100 million—frontier-class GPUs for data center services.

The company's founder, Elon Musk, revealed plans for this massive constellation months ago, but until recently, the scope of the individual satellites was largely unknown. That changed in June, when Musk and Ian Dahl, director of satellite engineering for SpaceX, spoke in a promotional video about the company's plans to develop the first iteration of an orbital data center, called an AI1 satellite. The video finally provided the company's numbers about the satellite's size and power capabilities.

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© Aurich Lawson | Getty Images

How space weather could bust the AI boom

24 June 2026 at 14:00
A coronal mass ejection from August, 2012. Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO

America’s electric grid is entering a period of unprecedented strain. Utilities across the country are scrambling to keep up as power-hungry AI data centers expand at a staggering pace, often […]

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Sophia selects Apex bus for on-orbit computing demonstration

23 June 2026 at 16:56

SAN FRANCISCO – Sophia Space announced the selection June 22 of an Apex bus for its first orbital computing node. Pasadena, California-based Sophia plans to demonstrate its Thermal Integrated LEO […]

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La Chine prépare un réseau géant pour l’IA : le plan qui pourrait changer l’équilibre mondial

23 June 2026 at 06:08
Pékin travaille à un vaste programme d’investissement estimé à 2 000 milliards de yuans, soit environ 295 milliards de dollars, destiné à développer un réseau national de centres de données consacrés à l’intelligence artificielle.

Competitiveness, Cost and Climate: Five Themes From the BNEF Summit Amsterdam

19 June 2026 at 13:27
The US energy landscape is changing quickly. Demand for artificial intelligence is driving up power demand while electric vehicle (EV) adoption slows down and enters a more complex phase. Together, these trends are reshaping how utilities, policymakers, financiers and automakers respond to emerging challenges in the energy sector.
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