Orbital Data Center Funds

Starcloud raised $250 million in a Series A extension at a $2.3 billion valuation, bringing its total capital raised to $450 million to build orbital data centers powered by satellite-mounted solar arrays and radiative cooling rather than terrestrial electricity and water resources. The round included new investor NVIDIA, following the companies' collaboration since the first H100 GPU was flown into orbit in November 2025.

Starcloud is working toward a constellation of 88,000 satellites and 20 gigawatts of orbital compute capacity, with next-generation spacecraft production underway at a new Washington manufacturing facility. Unlike terrestrial AI infrastructure, which strains local power grids and water supplies, orbital data centers rely on continuous solar exposure and space-based radiative cooling to operate.

Starcloud's approach signals how moving compute into orbit could offer a genuinely different pathway for scaling AI without adding to terrestrial energy and resource demand.