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Infra2026-06-09 · source-backed
A Spin co-founder raised $5M for Orbital, a plan to launch 10,000 data centers into space, betting orbital solar and passive cooling sidestep terrestrial power and water limits. It's early and speculative and probably won't work as pitched. I'm including it because the fact that this gets funded at all tells you how acute the power constraint has become. When people are pitching orbital data centers with a straight face, the bottleneck is real.
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